Select the correct inference of the given passage from "The Cask of Amontillado."

"You are not of the masons."

"Yes, yes," I said; "yes, yes."

"You? Impossible! A mason?"

"A mason," I replied.

"A sign," he said, "a sign."

"It is this," I answered, producing from beneath the folds of my roquelaire a trowel.

"You jest," he exclaimed, recoiling a few paces. "But let us proceed to the Amontillado."

"Be it so," I said, replacing the tool beneath the cloak and again offering him my arm.

Montresor is not a mason.

Fortunato is not a mason.

Fortunato does not believe that Montresor is a mason.

Montresor does not believe that Fortunato is a mason

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Cassandra Galvan

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Select the correct inference of the given passage from "The Cask of Amontillado."

"You are not of the masons."

"Yes, yes," I said; "yes, yes."

"You? Impossible! A mason?"

"A mason," I replied.

"A sign," he said, "a sign."

"It is this," I answered, producing from beneath the folds of my roquelaire a trowel.

"You jest," he exclaimed, recoiling a few paces. "But let us proceed to the Amontillado."

"Be it so," I said, replacing the tool beneath the cloak and again offering him my arm.

Montresor is not a mason.

Fortunato is not a mason.

Fortunato does not believe that Montresor is a mason.

Montresor does not believe that Fortunato is a mason

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Eliza Foley · Answer 1

The correct answer is Fortunato does not believe that Montresor is a mason.

The narrator Montresor said that he was a mason and Fortunato doesn't believe him. Fortunato asks him to show signs or anything similar and prove this, yet he still doesn't believe Montresor.