When connecting 2+ ideas in 1 speech, transition words and repetition of key words is useful to bridge the two subjects (aka relate them to one another).
Answer:
A. a well planned trick
because a hoax ussally means a lie and to trick you would lie
The indirect object usually expressed the beneficiary of an action: for whom or for whose sake was the task performed. Here it's "her" - she is getting the flowers. The flowers are the direct object.
The root should be "Mort" and the meaning of that , well its a base to a Latin word wich basically means "Death", hope this helped