Questions

This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.

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5728About what?
5728And suppose your poor daddy has affairs of his own to attend to?
5728Are you afraid of missing the train?
5728Are you aware that the commissary stores will have to be reopened just for you?
5728Are you going to copy out your letter to your grandmamma this evening?
5728Are you happy, Doretta?
5728Are you staying in bed for this reason? 5728 But WHAT is it?--the Roman festival?"
5728But how is it possible?
5728But how is it that we have n''t heard anything about it?
5728But in the name of heaven,insisted the professor,"what is it?"
5728But the Vatican?
5728But what is it?
5728But what news?
5728But what, then, is the matter? 5728 But where were they going to?"
5728But why, in the name of heaven?
5728But why?
5728But, then, why are you in bed?
5728Could you see? 5728 Daddy, daddy, what do you suppose has happened?
5728Do you not remember that you must leave out your cloak and your clothes?
5728Father?
5728Had it really been a confession?
5728Has n''t any one told you? 5728 Have I not got to consider what is right?"
5728Have n''t you dreamed it?
5728Have you also finished?
5728He is dead? 5728 How can I tell?
5728How? 5728 I understand that well enough,"said she,"and it seems to me time to end it; is n''t that so, Don Rocco?"
5728I?
5728Is all this yours?
5728Is it not a beauty? 5728 Is it really true?"
5728Is it really you?
5728Is it you, Lucia?
5728Is n''t there a bishop buried here? 5728 Is n''t there rather too much disparity of age?"
5728Is this da trozi?
5728Is this yours?
5728It is not true at all, is it?
5728Lucia? 5728 No?"
5728Not a word of truth in it?
5728Now, then, Doretta, why is it that you are so disagreeable to Signora Evelina?
5728Oh, Signor Odoardo, what fiendish weather!... But, if I am not mistaken, that is Doretta with you... How do you do, Doretta?
5728Oh, do tell us, what were they like? 5728 Pallura, poor Pallura, wo n''t you answer?"
5728That Countess Carlotta has n''t a priest ready and waiting? 5728 That also?"
5728The King''s arrival?
5728The PLEBISCITE?
5728The whole business, eh?
5728Then we shall hear no more of these ideas?
5728Well, Doretta,he absently inquires,"why do n''t you go on?"
5728Well, and what then? 5728 Well, have you heard the news?
5728Well, then,said the professor,"what are your feelings?"
5728Well, then? 5728 Well, then?"
5728Well?
5728What am I to understand? 5728 What can I say, my son?
5728What do you suppose?
5728What has Signora Evelina done to you?
5728What has happened to you?
5728What is it; what are you looking for?
5728What is the matter with you?
5728What made you do that?
5728What sort of a day is it?
5728What''s that?
5728What''s the matter now?
5728What?
5728When does Lucia return?
5728Where were they going?
5728Who knows,he made bold to say,"that he may not have gone away, and that he may not return?
5728Why not now? 5728 Why should n''t it be,"Doretta retorts with a touch of asperity,"when you open the window every few minutes?"
5728With YOU, daddy?
5728With whom?
5728With you, papa?
5728Would n''t you rather go and see your grandmamma yourself?
5728You can not change?
5728You can not change?
5728You know what I answered her last night?
5728You naughty child!... And what if, one of these days, you had to live with Signora Evelina?
5728--"Father, were you ever close to King Victor Emmanuel?"
5728--"Grandpapa, did you ever hear Count Cavour speak?"
5728--''Who''s coming?''
5728... And the Vatican?"
5728A medal for gallantry?
5728Ah, at such moments, what matters it that I must grow old and die?
5728Ah, first- loved women, why is it that you must die?
5728Am I beginning to fade?
5728Am I on the downward slope?
5728And I heard him mutter after a pause,"What are you going to do with a head like that?"
5728And are you not obliged to say to- morrow morning the few customary absurdities to the peasants?"
5728And as the train started he had asked her the same question:"Are you happy, Maria?"
5728And as to that, muses the average- adjuster, have I ever positively made up my mind to remain single, and if I have, who is to prevent my changing it?
5728And by the way, where is Lucia?
5728And did Signora Evelina die of despair?
5728And did anybody ever die at nineteen?
5728And his answer to the Countess Carlotta?
5728And if we had not lost that illusion, would not some other have vanished in its place?
5728And if you do not believe what is said of Lucia are there lacking reasons for sending away a servant?
5728And if you said a foolish thing yesterday do you wish to repeat it again to- day?
5728And mankind?
5728And my friend so- and- so?
5728And now what will the countess say?"
5728And so- and- so?
5728And the Vatican--?
5728And the fellow who sat next to me in class?
5728And these others?
5728And we-- what standing shall we have in our village or town?
5728And what about Mass?"
5728And what does one visit signify?
5728And what will have befallen the world by that time?
5728And when would the bells begin to ring?
5728And who knows how many of my friends may find themselves some day, at some hour of their lives, face to face with such an ordeal?
5728And why should it, after all?
5728Are you all in the dark still?"
5728Are you humiliating yourself in this way?
5728At what time?
5728Au revoir-- shall I see you later?"
5728Before telling him that you are married, you take the precaution to ask if he has a wife; he answers,"What do you take me for?"
5728But could Italians be defeated?
5728But did we feel kindly towards the weaklings?
5728But what does Doretta care for the comments of the kitchen?
5728But what''s become of so- and- so?
5728Death-- but who feared to die?
5728Did it ever occur to us, when a comrade looked sad, to ask: What ails you?
5728Did they look like their portraits?
5728Do you not think so?"
5728Do you remember that shirt that you missed last year?
5728Do you take no account of the gossip, of the scandal?
5728Does it not express the poetry of the southern winter, tepid and quiet?
5728Doretta goes to bed early, but all night long she tosses about under the bed- clothes, waking her nurse twenty times to ask:"Is it time to get up?"
5728Doretta is struck by a luminous thought:"What if I were to answer grandmamma''s letter?"
5728Good Lord, does n''t the child want her dinner first?"
5728Had he no suspicions?
5728Had the Moro spoken of Lucia in confession or not?
5728Had they not already arranged that he should confess the next day?
5728Has no one been out from Florence?
5728Have I travelled so far already?
5728Have n''t the peasants held a meeting?
5728Have there been no rumors about the neighborhood?
5728He must be observed and studied first-- how can I call him a friend?"
5728He too is silent-- what can he say to her?
5728How can one resist such a charming woman?
5728How did it happen that he had not heard?
5728How did they talk?"
5728How long has he known her?
5728How shall we have lived?
5728I suppose there is no hope of seeing you to- day?"
5728I think it must be the weather; does n''t the weather make you sleepy too, Nini?
5728If only because it was in your company that I first wandered over my country, how could my thoughts cease to seek you out, my heart to desire you?
5728Is HE alive?"
5728Is THAT all?"
5728Is he seriously in love with Signora Evelina?
5728Is n''t to- day Saturday?
5728Lose the battle?
5728Marin looked at him stupefied and repeating,"Run away?
5728Might I not die to- night?
5728Not here?
5728Only one hundred?
5728Perhaps some foreign expedition; a war in the East; was not the Eastern question still stirring?
5728Rome rebuilt?
5728Run away?"
5728Run away?"
5728Run away?"
5728Shall we have experimented with a Commune?
5728Should he do this or should he let a man be killed?"
5728Signora Carlotta was almost a padrona to him; but what about that other great padrone?
5728So- and- so a pere de famille?
5728So- and- so married?
5728Some one called out in the courtyard,"Where is that Don Rocco?"
5728Stop a moment-- let me draw breath; why must one devour life at this rate?
5728Tell me-- what happened?
5728Tell us about the Pope, about the crowd, about what happened next"..."What happened next?"
5728That he knows where the money is?"
5728The Church have been reformed?
5728The Pope--?"
5728The other day, looking at a friend''s child, a little girl of six, I said to him, half laughing,"Who knows?"
5728The other four came back into the room echoing,"Run away?
5728The professor added to this word a gesture which meant,"Did she carry them away?"
5728There are no clothes?"
5728To go against the whole country, to go against those who give you your living, to go against your own good, against Providence, for that creature?
5728To speak according to truth, according to what one believes to be the truth, is a duty; therefore, why did they persecute him?
5728V. And now?
5728Was it one hundred pounds of wax?
5728Well, then, why do n''t they marry-- that being the customary denouement in such cases?
5728Well, then?
5728Well, then?"
5728Well, you know what happened on the morning of the twenty- first?
5728What an abominable odor of pipe was this?
5728What are those distant voices?
5728What do you think of it all?
5728What do you wish?"
5728What flame rushes to his face?
5728What is the municipality about?
5728What is this smile, this upward glance?
5728What killed him?"
5728What shall we have done?
5728What''s the matter?"
5728What-- be a soldier?
5728What?
5728What?
5728When shall we start?"
5728When would Pallura come back with the candles?
5728Where did he sleep?
5728Which of us has not forgotten a hundred once familiar names, lost all trace of a hundred once familiar lives?
5728Which one of us would not have won it?
5728Who could tell whether he would ever have again a church so his own-- entirely his own?
5728Who could tell?
5728Who hurt you?
5728Who hurt you?
5728Who hurt you?
5728Who knows how many an act of patriotism will make their names illustrious, how dear to the people some of these names may become?
5728Who talks of kisses?
5728Who would have thought it?
5728Why do n''t they marry?
5728Why not at once?"
5728Will England also have received her coup- de- grace?
5728Will France have passed through another series of empires, republics, communes, and monarchies?
5728Will one of our old friends, attached to the Ministry of the Interior, have been made Governor of Tunis?
5728Will our great poet have been born?
5728Will she be sweet and good like THE OTHER?
5728Will she know how to be a mother to Doretta?
5728Will the Bersaglieri be at Trent?
5728Will the threatened invasion of northern barbarians have taken place?
5728Will there be any armies in those days?
5728Will they send out only the silver arm?
5728Will you give me a pinch of snuff?"
5728Would it not have been better for him to give the same amount in alms?
5728Would n''t I, if the Lord just blew on me like this?"
5728Would not the whole bust do better?
5728You begin to say to yourself:"Who IS this strange man?
5728You receive a letter in an unfamiliar hand, you glance at the signature, and you shout out:"What?
5728cried the boy, extending his arms in amazement,"you have n''t heard the news?"
5728he exclaimed with annoyance,"do you really think that you have in your house a regular saint?
5728he went on, with excited gestures--"how is it possible that you have n''t heard anything?
5728in bed?
5728is he good or bad, a believer or a sceptic?
5728or, if he answered that somebody lay dead at home, did we have any tears for his sorrow?
5728rule over Italy?
5728what did Don Console say?
5728what has been going on in his soul?
5728what has he been doing all these years?