The answer is A, when quoting a character the actions and physical interjections are without quotation marks. You also must end your quote with either a comma or period after the closed quote.
The correct answer is "of the children". This adjectival phrase is used to modify and further explain the noun "voices".
Answer: The sea was like a rippling blanket of brochure-blue. Squabbling seagulls flew overhead, harassing the beachgoers in their endless hunger. Gannets were dive-bombing the stretched surface of the sea far out from shore. The horizon was edged with a silver tint and a cormorant was flying into that place where sun and water meet. His wings were a blur of motion and he soon faded from sight. The opera of the sea washed over me and the wave-music was welcome.
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Bad is to horrible as warm is to hot.
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