Question 1(multiple choice worth 4 points) select the correct inference of the given passage from "the cask of amontillado." "the nitre! " i said; "see, it increases. it hangs like moss upon the vaults. we are below the river's bed. the drops of moisture trickle among the bones. come, we will go back ere it is too late. your cough--" "it is nothing," he said; "let us go on. the narrator is worried about the nitre on the walls of the vault. the narrator knows it is already too late for fortunato to escape. fortunato is worried about the moisture and bones in the vaults. fortunato wants to continue their descent into the vaults for the amontillado.

What inference can be made about the characters beliefs

Match the audience to the description of each speech

(1) fire extended humans’ geographical boundaries by allowing them to travel into regions that were previously too cold to explore. (2) it also kept predators away, allowing early humans to sleep securely. (3) fire, in fact, has been a significant factor in human development and progress in many ways. (4) other obvious benefits of fire are its uses in cooking and in hunting. (5) probably even more important, however, is that learning to control fire allowed people to change the very rhythm of their lives. (6) before fire, the human daily cycle coincided with the rising and setting of the sun. (7) with fire, though, humans gained time to think and talk about the day’s events and to prepare strategies for coping with tomorrow. the sentence that expresses the main idea is: (type the number of the sentence. then click “go.”)