Question

1. which detail best supports the idea that bev had time to take action to save herself and benji?

a. \most of those houses were empty now. / just me and benji, bev thought.\ (paragraphs 9 - 10)

b. \he held his tennis shoes in one hand, but whatever hed gotten into, hed taken them off too late. they were caked with gray mud\ (paragraph 35)

c. \the radio warning all those years ago, when benji was small, had been wrong. fifty years, theyd said.\ (paragraph 52)

d. \and in the quiet then they could hear it: the water, its thousand narrow fingers,

Explanation:

Option C indicates there was a radio warning decades in advance that the event would happen in 50 years. This long lead time means Bev had decades to prepare or take action to save herself and Benji. The other options do not relate to having time for preventive action: A only notes they are alone, B describes Benji's muddy shoes, and D describes the approaching water with no prior time context.

Answer:

C. "The radio warning all those years ago, when Benji was small, had been wrong. Fifty years, they'd said." (Paragraph 52)