The 'dark past' is most likely referring to a period of time marked by traumatic suffering. The full line seems to be saying that the 'dark past' taught these people faith. People often only have faith to hang on to in times of suffering. So, I'd say the answer is c.
Since pathos is an emotional appeal to the audience. so in this case to convince someone to donate money for a park, you could tell them stories about children who do not have parks to play at or a vision of all of the happy children playing at the park. Really anything that is going to evoke some kind of emotion out of the reader/viewer
Human limitations are the limits to yourself and your body.
Possibilities are the things you could potentially do but are not.
If you want examples then please ask this question again.
Answer: by asking one’s sibling what it is like to have trouble falling asleep
Explanation:
Text-to-self connections refers to the personal connections which a reader makes between a piece of reading material and the personal experience of the reader.
Since in the excerpt, the person couldn't sleep, then the reader can make a text-to-self connection for this excerpt by asking one’s sibling what it is like to have trouble falling asleep.