Why does Paine most likely refer to Joan of Arc? to enlist the aid of the French government in the fight against Britain
to show that the Americans have God on their side just as Joan of Arc did
to demonstrate how cowardly the British army can be
to prove that the British army had been defeated in the past

Joan didn't hail from a place called Arc, as the typical Anglicization of her father's surname, d'Arc (sometimes rendered as Darc or Tarc), might imply. Instead, Jehanne—or Jehanette, as she was known—grew up in Domrémy, a village in northeastern France, the daughter of a farmer and his devoutly Catholic wife.

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to show that the Americans have God on their side just as Joan of Arc did.

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the correct answer would be d.

what excerpt? i would generally think a.