2. Which detail best supports the idea that Bev had time to take action to save herself and Benji?
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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
he'd gotten into, he'd 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, they'd said." (
Paragraph 52)
O D"And in the quiet then they could hear it: the water,
its thousand narrow fingers, creeping through the
dead lawns and over the bleached asphalt.”(
Paragraph 74)