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How to punctuate a quote of a question?

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up vote 0 down vote favorite It is suggested my question is a duplicate of How to punctuate an embedded quoted question within a declarative sentence?. It is not, that answer does not address the problem of a quote within a quote, it only addresses the problem of a quote within prose. So, for example, it uses double quotation marks around the quote instead of single, and doesn't address whether I have a comma after the singly-quoted quotation or not. My original question follows. Note that the character Jack is speaking and part of his speech is to quote a question asked earlier by his daughter. A character is speaking to another character, and quotes a question of the other character then goes on about that question. "No," Jack said, "You asked me, 'Can I go out with Jenna?', and I said yes, but yo...