I’d say:
I had a hard time deciding whether to write an essay about the works of “Eudora Welty, Joan Didion, Gwendolyn Brooks” because the rest of the punctuations doesn’t make sense.
But actually it should be:
I had a hard time deciding whether to write an essay about the works of Eudora Welty, Joan Didion, and Gwendolyn Brooks.
(Without the quotation marks and inclusion the word “and” before “Gwendolyn”)
Answer:
It is their friend's first time home all summer, and they want to make it special.
Explanation:
An epigraph is a quotation, poem or a phrase at the beginning of a document or a story which serves to present a preface, summary or sometimes even a counter example or to link the work to a broader perspective. From the given options, a Quotation from Voltaire can serve as an epigraph to the story.
Therefore, the answer to this question is:
Option B: A quote from Voltaire
The second, third, and fourth are correct.
I think it’s a c then b for the third