The foul odor that caused the narrator and Thompson to flee into the cold is the Limburger Cheese. Of course they thought it was the rotting corpse but the pine box did not contain a dead body, instead inside were a bunch of guns.
Option a. the beginning of a story, when the characters are introduced
Exposition is the insertion of the important background within a story. It is the process of scattering information through the text. Incluing is a technique in which the reader is gradually exposed to background information about the world in which the story is set. The idea is to clue the readers into the world the author is building them without being aware of it.
Ding, pink, sling, king, ming, ring, sing …etc
A. Is past participle
B. Is past tense
C. Is present continuous
D. Is present tense (factual)
Hence B is the right answer :)