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Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

Ah! Whatever could be said was said. All held him guilty. Even his own mother who claimed to understand him the best. All had betrayed him in his hour of need. Yet, there he was, still with a sparkling hope and knew that the truth must prevail. In the cold, dark and damp cell he never for a moment lost faith in God and goodness and was waiting anxiously for an angel to come, plead non-guilty for him and free him of his miseries.

The truth must prevail means?

A
He was true
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Angel will reveal truth
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C
Truth always wins in the end
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D
We must plead for the truth
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Solution

The correct option is C Truth always wins in the end
"Prevail" literally means to win out. In the given passage, when everybody believed the protagonist to be guilty, he still had hope that his innocence would be proved and that the truth would win out. So, Option C is the correct answer.

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