Mester 1 (2020-2021) Which statement best summarizes the main idea of the
passage?
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This excerpt is from Mark Twain's last novel, in which he
describes the life of Joan of Arc through a fictional
character. Read the passage, then answer the question
that follows.
On the steps of the church stood a stranger, a Burgundian
priest, who was telling the people news which made them
weep, and rave, and rage, and curse, by turns. He said
our old mad King was dead, and that now we and France
and the crown were the property of an English baby lying
in his cradle in London. And he urged us to give that
child our allegiance, and be its faithful servants and well-
wishers; and said we should now have a strong and stable
government at last, and that in a little time the English
armies would start on their last march, and it would be a
brief one, for all that it would need to do would be to
conquer what odds and ends of our country yet remained
under that rare and almost forgotten rag, the banner of
France.
When the king of France died, the English claimed
France as their own.
O A Burgundian priest claimed that France actually
belonged to England.
O People rioted when the priest claimed that France
now belonged to England.
O Joan uttered the only harsh words of her life when
she learned that England had claimed France.
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