What’s present passive?

The simple present passive expresses discrete actions or states in the present or near future while moving an object from an active sentence into the subject position

a. is the correct answer

the correct answers are:

c. “never in the history of his people had a man married a woman who spoke a different tongue.”

d. “‘it has never been heard,’ was the verdict of an old man speaking a few weeks later.”

e. “this man had come with others to commiserate with okeke.”