Read the passage from "cruel tribute." "now then," said minos, "you shall hear my decree. athens has robbed me of my dearest treasure, a treasure that can never be restored to me; so, in return, i require from athens, as tribute, that possession which is the dearest and most precious to her people; and it shall be destroyed cruelly as my son was destroyed." "the condition is hard," said the elders, "but it is just. what is the tribute which you require? " "has the king a son? " asked minos. the face of king aegeus lost all its color and he trembled as he thought of a little child then with its mother at troezen, on the other side of the saronic sea. but the elders knew nothing about that child, and they answered: "alas, no! he has no son; but he has fifty nephews who are eating up his substance and longing for the time to come when one of them shall be king; and, as we have said, it was they who slew the young prince, androgeos."

By placing this passage at the beginning of the story, the author builds suspense for the arrival of Theseus.

Explanation:

In the story "Cruel Tribute" by James Baldwin, the plot revolves around the tribute imposed upon the city of Athens by King Minos. He did this in revenge for the death of his son Andrgeos.

The provided excerpt in the question is from the beginning of the text where the narrator gives the details of how the tribute had come about. king Minos had blamed the king of Athens for the death of his own son Prince Androgeos. And as a form of revenge, he had wanted to kill the child of King Aegeus but since no known son was there, King Minos instead imposed a tribute of fourteen youths and maidens be sent to him every year. Thiis inclusion of the passage at the initial part of the story serves as a built-up of the emerging of the character of Theseus, the 'unknown' son of King Aegeus.

Theseus is the correct choice.

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b is the correct answer

english novelist and poet, the eldest of the three brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of english literature.

she enlisted in school at roe head in january 1831, aged 14 years. she left the year after to teach her sisters, emily and anne, at home, returning in 1835 as a governess. in 1839 she undertook the role as governess for the sidgwick family, but left after a few months to return to haworth where the sisters opened a school, but failed to attract pupils. instead they turned to writing and they each first published in 1846 under the pseudonyms of currer, ellis and acton bell. her first novel the professor was rejected by publishers, her second novel jane eyre was published in 1847. the sisters admitted to their bell pseudonyms in 1848, and by the following year were celebrated in london literary circles.

brontë experienced the early deaths of all her siblings. she became pregnant shortly after her marriage in june 1854 but died on 31 march 1855, almost certainly from hyperemesis gravidarum, a complication of pregnancy which causes excessive nausea and vomiting.

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