PART B: Which of the following quotes best supports the answer to Part A? A. “...and then came darkness and, worse still, silence which pierced my ears like a sword. The Machine hums! Did you know that? Its hum penetrates our blood, and may even guide our thoughts.” (Paragraph 159) B. “Then she broke down, for with the cessation of activity came an unexpected terror—silence.” (Paragraph 271) C. “She had never known silence, and the coming of it nearly killed her—it did kill many thousands of people outright.” (Paragraph 272) D. “And behind all the uproar was silence—the silence which is the voice of the earth and of the generations who have gone.” (Paragraph 274)