"ha! ha! ! he! very good joke indeed--an excellent jest. we shall have many a rich laugh about it at the palazzo--he! he! our wine--he! he! he! "

fortunato thinks montresor has played a joke on him.
fortunato hopes montresor is playing a joke on him.
the two men will laugh about their adventure.
the two men enjoy playing jokes on one another.

However, the idea of real-life people living in what would become the united states for thousands of years before columbus ever left spain never dawned on me. what would be the best way to revise this sentence for greater clarity? a) however, the fact that columbus left spain thousands of years after people settled what would become the united states never dawned on me. b) it never dawned on me, however, the idea of real-life people living in what would become the united states for thousands of years before columbus ever left spain. c) however, the fact that people were already living in what would become the united states for thousands of years before columbus ever left spain never dawned on me. d) however, the idea never dawned on me that long before columbus ever left spain, real-life people lived for thousands of years in what would become the united states.

Messalla frowns at the wide circular cover, for a moment returning to his own fussy world.

Read the passage and choose the correct punctuation marks