Read the following excerpt from "the gift of the magi" and answer the question.
a furnished flat at $8 per week. it did not exactly beggar description, but it certainly had that word on the lookout
for the mendicancy squad. in the vestibule below was a letter-box into which no letter would go, and an electric
button from which no mortal finger could coax a ring.
what is the meaning of the word coax as it is used in the passage?
force
persuade
expect
repair
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Lucy lined up the old postcards in the order they had arrived, placing each one carefully so that the edges of all the cards touched, but didn't overlap. she sipped her tea, remembering the day each card had arrived, when she'd hurried to the end of the driveway and opened the mailbox, picking through the blackberry bushes that grew wild on either side of it, to find a thin card lying inside like a treasure. in the passage, what is the best example of an artifact? a. the treasure b. the postcards c. the mailbox d. the tea