SSC CGL 2017 PYQ — Question 71

Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives.

But the war did not cease; though friend and foe alike were almost drowned in blood. It seemed as
powerful as eternity, and in time Tony Vassall too went to battle and was killed. The country gave
Patience a widow's pension, as well a touching inducement to marry again; she died of grief. Many
people died in those days, it was not strange at all. Nathan and his wife got so rich that after the war
they died of overeating, and their daughter Olive came into a vast fortune and a Trustee.