PART A: Which of the following sentences or phrases from the passage BEST conveys the central idea? * A) “All we know is that there was a glory and that it is no more . . . .”
B) “Long ages afterwards history will judge of this period that we have passed through.”
C) “. . . we shall be able, with our effort, remembering him and following his path, to illumine this land again . . . .”
D) “. . . we are too near it to be proper judges and to understand what has happened and what has not happened.”
PART B: Which of the following provides the strongest evidence in the passage to support the central idea in Part A? *

A) “It will judge of the successes and the failures . . . . ”
B) “. . . all we know is that for the moment there is darkness . . . . ”
C) “. . . small as we are, but still with the fire that he instilled into us.”
D) “And if those living flames exist, there will not be darkness in this land . . . .”