For the last one it is b or c
The answer is when his wife asked for him to wish her four pairs of hands in this excerpt, they didn't believe that the story they were told was true, so she was mainly making fun of the major's warning.
The sentence that is punctuated correctly is sentence D: The new school directory is out; it contains the names and phone numbers of all the students in the school. The first and the second clauses are independent clauses, and it would be incorrect to separate them by only using a comma if there are no coordinating conjunctions between both, For this reasons, the correct way to separate them is by using a period or a semicolon. In addition, it is not correct to use a comma to separate a list that only has two elements as in the case of list that includes "names" and "phone numbers".
The answer should be C, looking at all of them and singling them out, C seems the most reasonable and plausable. While the words and characteristics are important, the style and tone truly make up a writer's work.