I believe you have a typo when it comes to the first option - it should be athletics, not athletic. The word athletic is an adjective, and the word athletics is a noun.
That being said, the correct answer is A. athletics. Even though this noun ends in -s, it is still singular. The rest of the options are all plural nouns.
The climax is the turning point of the story a.k.a. its where the best parts usually are
The correct answer would be poetry
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<u>Answer:</u> The author describes the dangerous situation that the characters in the story are facing.
<u>Explanation:</u> As we read each part from the passage, we see that all of them contain one thing. And, what exactly is that? We see that all of them contain the situation that they're all experiencing at the moment.
<u>Cited text:</u> <em>“I shouldn’t think of this as easy. I know what I need to do here, but I could lose one these men if just one thing goes wrong.”</em>
We can see that this is a present statement, and that something is going wrong between those people. I'm supposing it's a fire or something of that nature.