Which of the following lines of dialogue is punctuated correctly

a. "where are you going" mom asked "and how long will you be gone"
b. they said 'we haven't been outside yet .
c. "what are you doing? ' she asked me.
d. he wanted to know "why i was going to school."

D. is the correct answer.

Explanation:

To correctly punctuate each of the lines, this is how you would need to write them (I have bolded all of the corrected/added characters):

A. "Where are you going," Mom asked, "and how long will you be gone?"

B. They said, "We haven't been outside yet."

C. "What are you doing?" she asked me.

D.

Explanation: C would have been correct if it was quoted well.

what can best be inferred from this excerpt is the pittsburgh pirates had a winning season in 1972., the specific information about the year is provided in the excerpt.

the other options are not correct because we can not assure that roberto clemente was the best since we don't know the information about the other players, there are no mentions about any specific fan either and it is clear that not many batters can make it to   3000 hits because it is mention as a high number.

b. our party quickly made its way into the cave / but we failed to find our host [the cyclops] himself inside.