3. which quotation is punctuated correctly?
a. “take it away” he said, “because i have no use for it.”
b. “take it away,” he said, “because i have no use for it.”
c. “take it away” he said “because i have no use for it.”
d. “take it away.” he said. “because i have no use for it.”

The correct answer would actually be

“Take it away,” he said, “because I have no use for it.”

The "b" in because should not be capitalized as it is not the beginning of a new sentence.

The rest of the other examples do not include commas where there should be.

post the passage. we don’t know what you’re talking about

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.