Question

Select the correct inference of the given passage from "The Cask of Amontillado."

"You are not of the masons."
"Yes, yes," I said; "yes, yes."
"You? Impossible! A mason?"
"A mason," I replied.
"A sign," he said, "a sign."
"It is this," I answered, producing from beneath the folds of my roquelaire a trowel.
"You jest," he exclaimed, recoiling a few paces. "But let us proceed to the Amontillado."
"Be it so," I said, replacing the tool beneath the cloak and again offering him my arm.

A. Montresor is not a mason.
B. Fortunato is not a mason.
C. Fortunato does not believe that Montresor is a mason.
D. Montresor does not believe that Fortunato is a mason.

Answer 1

C. Fortunato does not believe that Montresor is a mason.
Fortunato does not believe Montresor is a mason because Montresor did not understand his strange gesture.

Answer 2

C. Fortunato does not believe that Montresor is a mason.

Step-by-step explanation:

In "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe, Fortunato and Montresor are two correlated characters, in a certain situation Montresor looks for Fortunato to seek revenge for certain things that Fortunato did to him in the past, and in the excerpt Montresor claims to be a MAson, while Fortunato does not believe him.