The correct answer is "Hansel and Gretel lived on the edge of a dark and foreboding forest"
Explanation:
In the plot or sequence of events in a story, there are different stages including the exposition or beginning, the rising action, the climax, the falling action, and the resolution. In the case of the exposition, this is the beginning of the story and includes background information about the characters and information about the setting, but not the conflict s this emerges after the exposition. According to this, the sentence in the passage that represents the exposition is "Hansel and Gretel lived on the edge of a dark and foreboding forest" because this presents both the characters and the setting right before the main conflict emerges.