The girl were making colorful chalk drawing on the side walk

Here is your answer it should be 6.The girl were making colorful chalk drawing on the side walk

Explanation:

edit: It is a action verb since making is describing the subject's action,

The girl(subject)  action verb (making) colorful chalk

they insisted that there was not enough time to learn everything.  

explanation:

if they were going to steal the answers that is simply because they insisted that there was not enough time to learn everything.  

each morning i wrote my name

on the dusty cabinet, then crossed

the dining table in script, scrawled

in capitals on the backs of chairs,

practicing signatures like scales

while mother followed squirting

linseed from a burping can