The person described in the poem:
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Correct answer: A. is alive
Explanation
The present and future tenses ('she is', 'she will move') show she is living.
Note: Passage I is a modern copyrighted poem and is not reproduced. Its speaker describes a woman 'as huge as Asia', seismic with laughter, tender to lame dogs and hurt birds, unafraid when bombers pass, a mountain that only faith could move. The speaker sends her all his faith and love, trusting that she will go on moving 'from grief to grief'.
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