Once you have finished the story, answer the following questions:

1) What is Montresor's coat of arms? What does its meaning reveal about Montresor?
2) How does Montresor get Fortunato to keep walking deeper into the catacombs?
3) Discuss the ending of the story. What happened? Were you surprised by it? What does it reveal about Montresor’s character?
4) Look up the term foreshadowing. How does Poe foreshadow the ending of the story?