2. write the compound sentence. how do you know?
"the thermometer and the cough syrup are in the medicine cabinet next to the cotton balls."

This isn't a compound sentence

it does not have a conjuction, colon or semicolon joining two independent clauses.

A compound sentence would be this:

The thermometer and the cough syrup are in the medicine cabinet; they are next to the cotton balls.

go

explanation:

because it can't be a slow, i would say possibly whoa, but there's nothing too surprising about orange juice, and because it tastes awesome it's a go drink, not food.