Choose the sentence that is correctly punctuated. a. the history professor asked, open double quote“what famous event happened on april 4, 1968 in memphis tennessee? close double quote” b. the history professor asked, open double quote“what famous event happened, on april 4, 1968 in memphis, tennessee? close double quote” c. the history professor asked open double quote“what famous event happened on april 4, 1968 in memphis, tennessee? close double quote” d. the history professor asked, open double quote“what famous event happened on april 4, 1968, in memphis, tennessee? close double quote

The correct answer should be D.

D. The history professor​ asked, “What famous event happened on April​ 4, 1968, in Memphis​, Tennessee​?"

Explanation:

There needs to be a comma between "asked" and the open quote to represent a pause and separate who asked the question, and the question itself; this rules out alternative B.

When presenting dates within a sentence, there needs to be a comma after the date to separate it from the rest of the sentence; this rules out alternatives A and C.

By process of elimination, the only possible alternative is D.

since it is asking for her reaction to elnora's trouble at school you can rule out any answers with a positive response (b). then you can rule out (d), this is because it does not show the mother's reaction but the daughter's response. that leaves you with two options (a) and (c), by looking at the options you can rule out (c) because it isn't referring back to elnora's issues at school.