I'd say it's D) Indirect object, but I'm not sure, so don't take my word as gospel :)
The answer is: figure out meaning based on what you already know and what the text says
To infer something from the passage, you need to read it and able to understand the meaning of the passage without actually put too much focus on the passage.
Passage inference could be considered as a reading skills. This usually tested when you do an SAT test to measure how much information you can gather from reading a certain text within a short period of time.
Tantalus was one of the sons of Zeus with a nymbh, which was condemned to an eternal punishment, bound to Tartarus (the divine prison in the Underworld), for several crimes he had commit, among which, revealing forbidden secrets from the Heavens to the humans (as similary did Prometheus) and stealing the food beverage of the Gods (respectively nectar and ambrosia). Before being punished however, he was king of Sipylus in Lydia, and was admitted in the table of the Gods, even though he was not one himself. Therefore being able to enjoy the pleasure usually only did by the Gods.
I think that number 3 is the answer you're looking for.
<span>Tone is the way an author's words make the reader feel.
in general, writer could create a tone of the story with these following ways :
- Directly tell the readers about what the character currently feels
- by giving some clues about the reactions surrounding the characters
- By reflecting the condition with character's experiences</span>