I would say the answer is c.
"Are you sure you left it on the table?" asked Roberto. is the only correctly punctuated sentence here.
the first sentence requires a COMMA inside the quotations, rather than a period. "Judy said" is attached to the quote, because the quote is judy's words. you keep them together, rather than making them two separate sentences.
the third sentence is missing a comma as well. "oh no," sarah said... is the correct way to write it, with a comma after "no."
the fourth sentence is wrong for several reasons. your end punctuation goes inside your parentheses, and this sentence put the exclamation point after. "She laughed" additionally requires a period to end the sentence, stating that she laughed, then offering her dialogue. alternatively, you could place a comma after "laughed" and accept that for the verb leading into the quote.
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The controversy of women getting paid less than men was because people thought that women IS NOT the same as men. In the past, women were looked at as property or some fragile little thing that ONLY has the job of carrying children in the family and take care of the house. Also this depends on what timeline you are looking at, but women would often have less education compared to men simply because of their gender. Women are expected to be "proper" whereas men "manly." Now in the present, some men still have that traditional thoughts like how women can not be as great as men, which is why they would be payed less.
