A trial that must be endured or test that must be passed in order to join a group.
What is an initiation?
200
He is a cossack that lives on Shiptrap Island.
Who is General Zaroff (or Ivan)?
200
This is the setting of the story.
What is a winter night in a forest (in the Carpathian Mts)?
200
$1.87
What is how much money Della has saved up?
300
The reason that Montresor wants to murder Fortunato.
What is revenge (or because Fortunato insulted Montresor)?
300
Millicent makes this decision because she's her own person.
Why does Millicent refuse to join the sorority?
300
A type of trap that our protagonist sets.
What is the Malay mancatcher (tree fall), Burmese tiger pit, or knife attached to a branch?
300
This stops the men from killing each other and forces them to talk.
What is a fallen beech tree?
300
The present that Della buys for Jim.
What is a watch fob?
400
The reason that Fortunato follows Montresor into the catacombs.
What is to taste some wine?
400
This is what the man on the bus says he ate for breakfast.
What are heatherbird's eyebrows on toast?
400
The General's main reason is that conventional animals no longer challenge him.
Why does the General hunt humans?
400
One example of irony in the story.
What is when they decide to finally put their feud behind them, they die.
OR they both got what they wished for at the beginning OR the "help" they call for = wolves?
400
The reason the ending is ironic.
What is both sold their prized possessions to purchase a gift for the other. However, neither can use the gift?
500
The number of years Fortunato's bones have been undisturbed.
What is 50 years (one half century)?
500
Millicent compares them to ordinary, dull-brown sparrows - they are all alike.
How does Millicent view the girls in the sorority?
500
We know because Rainsford sleeps in Zaroff's bed that night.
How do we know that Rainsford killed Zaroff?
500
This is one of the story's interlopers.
Who is Georg (or Ulrich)?
Who are the wolves?
What is the fallen tree?