QR Challenge: The Cask of Amontillado Quiz

Created using the ClassTools QR Treasure Hunt Generator

Teacher Notes

A. Prior to the lesson:

1. Arrange students into groups. Each group needs at least ONE person who has a mobile device.

2. If their phone camera doesn't automatically detect and decode QR codes, ask students to

• Download a QR reader (e.g. I-Nigma | NeoReader | Kaywa) onto their mobile devices
• Bring these devices into the lesson.

3. Print out the QR codes.

4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.

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B. The lesson:

1. Give each group a clipboard and a piece of paper so they can write down the decoded questions and their answers to them.

2. Explain to the students that the codes are hidden around the school. Each team will get ONE point for each question they correctly decode and copy down onto their sheet, and a further TWO points if they can then provide the correct answer and write this down underneath the question.

3. Away they go! The winner is the first team to return with the most correct answers in the time available. This could be within a lesson, or during a lunchbreak, or even over several days!

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C. TIPS / OTHER IDEAS

4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.

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Questions / Answers (teacher reference)

Question	Answer
1. Who is the protagonist in The Cask of Amontillado?	Montresor
2. Why does Montresor want revenge against Fortunato	Montresor wants revenge for Fortunato insulting his family name
3. Who does Montresor tell Fortunato that he will get to help him try the Amontillado?	Luchresi
4. What is Fortunato’s large character flaw?	He drinks too much mine
5. Where does Fortunato tell Montresor to take him?	To Montresor’s vault
6. Why does Montresor tell Fortunato that it is not a good idea to go into the vault?	The vaults are cold and wet, and Fortunato is sick
7. What type of irony is shown in the opening where Montresor reveals his plan to the readers?	Situational irony
8. How does Montresor finally get revenge against Fortunato?	He chains him to a wall in his vault and buries him alive
9. How is it ironic that Montresor toasts to Fortunato’s long life while down in the vault?	Montresor is secretly planning to kill Fortunato, and knows he won’t have a long life.
10. Why do we think Montresor is insane and a flawed narrator?	He is motivated by anger, but he never provides background for his anger
11. What does Montresor continue to give to Fortunato while down in the vault?	Montresor gives Fortunato wine in the vault
12. Why do you think Montresor continues to give Fortunato more wine?	Montresor wants Fortunato to trust him, and also, he wants Fortunato to be drunk and confused
13. What is Montresor’s motivation to smile at Fortunato after he reveals his anger towards him?	Montresor is motivated by his anger/insanity/cunning in knowing that he will kill Fortunato
14. From what perspective did Poe choose to write his short story?	First-person perspective
15. Why does Montresor say his heart grew sick after burying Fortunato?	Montresor says it must be the cold
16. Do you believe Montresor feels guilty, or is he an insane murderer, explain	short-answer

 

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