"The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe Quiz and Close Reading Bundle

Promote active engagement with fiction, support the development of close reading analysis skills for high school, and evaluate general reading comprehension with this bundle of resources for teaching the Gothic short story “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe. Included are the following: a plot-based quiz, a worksheet composed of rigorous close reading questions, a craft analysis activity, the public domain narrative, and answer keys. Materials are delivered in printable Word Document and PDF formats. By engaging with these materials, students will perform the following tasks:

• Identify what the text states explicitly and implicitly
• Analyze the nature of character relationships and interactions
• Examine grammatically correct structure
• Define complex words and phrases as they are used in the text
• Identify the best evidence of foreshadowing in a given passage
• Apply knowledge of various literary devices including verbal irony
• Make logical inferences about the protagonist’s mindset and motivations
• Identify relevant textual evidence in support of a claim or idea