These answer choices are Greek to me... Help?


The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.


What part of the plot does this excerpt reveal?

AIt is part of the exposition that describes the importance of the Puritan prison.

BIt is part of the exposition that describes the happiness of the Puritan settlers.

CIt is part of the rising action that reveals criminal activity.

DIt is part of the rising action that reveals the Puritan work ethic. <-WRONG