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Q. "Nor would I wish to deny that perhaps God has blessed and admitted him to His presence. For albeit he led a wicked, sinful life, it is possible that at the eleventh hour he was so sincerely repentant that God had mercy upon him and received him into His kingdom." What has happened to Ser Cepperello after death?
He's accidentally buried in the wrong grave.
He's magically resurrected and given a second chance at life.
His final album went double platinum.
He's considered a saint.
Q. Ghismonda is trying to convince her father of something here: "[...] any man whose conduct is virtuous proclaims himself a noble, and those who call him by any other name are in error." What is it?
That an 11 PM curfew is totally unfair.
That her low-born lover is deserving
That virtue is a useless concept
That women have a claim to nobility as well as men
Q. "Was there ever an act of betrayal more deserving of eternal punishment than this, whereby you deprive a man who does you honour, not only of his good name, but of his source of hope and consolation?" What despicable act is King Charles I about to perpetrate?
Abducting his loyal servant's young daughters
Stripping a gentleman friend of his property
Stealing the lover of his close friend
Texting nasty photos of himself to King Philip's wife
Q. "But since they wanted to find out for certain about these matters, and could think of no other way of doing it, they promised one another that whichever of them died first would return, if possible, to the one who was still alive, and give him all the information he wanted; and they sealed this compact with a solemn oath." What happens when Tingoccio returns from the dead?
He tells Meuccio that he's suffering for his sins.
He says that the whole "Pearly Gates" thing is so not true
He explains that having sex with your godchild is not a sin
He explains that having sex with your godchild is not a sin and tells Meuccio that he's suffering for his sins
Q. "Nor is this surprising, when you pause to consider that she controls all the affairs we unthinkingly call our own, and that consequently it is she who arranges and rearranges them after her own inscrutable fashion, constantly moving them now in one direction, now in another, then back again, without following any discernible pattern." Of whom is Pampinea speaking?
Fate
Your mother
Fortune
The Queen of the Day