Fireflies - Comprehension Questions
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7. Read these sentences from the text.
A set of eyes seemed to pop out of the pitch black in front of her, and she nearly
shrieked. In a millisecond, her mind raced between conclusions: was it a fox, a deer, the
camp director, or maybe Liam?
What punctuation mark could replace the colon in the last sentence?
A. a quotation mark
B. a dash
C. a comma
D. a question mark