In the plan, Bianca's education is to be provided by what?

• A. A musician
• B. A tutor from Verona
• C. A school teacher
• D. A cook

Answer: (C)

The plan hinges on Bianca’s education being entrusted to a schoolmaster. In the scheme, a tutor-figure is imagined to oversee Bianca’s schooling, and this role becomes the cover for Lucentio’s ruse. Lucentio, with Tranio, presents himself as Cambio, a schoolmaster who will tutor Bianca, using teaching as the means to get close to her and pursue romance. So the element that makes the plan work is the presence of a schoolteacher as Bianca’s educator, not any other profession.

That’s why the other options don’t fit: a musician or a cook would serve unrelated roles, not education, and the tutor is specifically presented as a schoolmaster (from the appropriate regional background in the plot), not from Verona.