Edgar Allan Poe
The name of Poe's most famous poem
The Raven
The first cat's name
Pluto
The type of drink "Amontillado" is
This is found under the stranger's habiliments
Nothing
This is the reason the narrator kills the old man
His Evil Eye
Poe had a lifelong problem with this, the "family curse"
Alcoholism
This is how the narrator kills the cat
Hangs him from a tree
The ironic name of Montresor's victim
Fortunato
The prince's name
Prospero
Of the narrator's senses, this one was most acute
Hearing
Poe's stepfather John Allan left this to Poe in his will
Nothing
This behavior causes the shift in the narrator's temperament
Intemperance (drinking, alcoholism)
The season during which the story takes place
Carnival
The amount of time it takes for the Red Death to kill someone
Half an hour
The narrator hides the old man's body here
Under the floorboards
The name of Poe's cousin and wife
Virginia
The location from which the narrator tells his story
A felon's cell (prison)
Montresor sits on this while he listens to his victim's screams
The number of friends the prince has housed in his abbey
A thousand
The readers' inability to trust everything he says makes him this kind of narrator
Unreliable
By the time he was 20, Poe had lost three of these
Mother figures
The narrator's pets included "birds, gold-fish, a fine dog, rabbits, a small ______, and a cat."
Monkey
The number of years the body has remained undiscovered
50 (half a century)
The color of the fourth (and middle) room
Twice the sound of the heartbeat is compared to the sound a watch makes when enveloped in this
Cotton