Question 26 is based on the following passage.    Of the worship of Diana at Nemi some leading features can still be made out.From the votive offerings which have been found on the site, it appears that she wasconceived of especially as a huntress, and further as blessing men and women withoffspring, and granting expectant mothers an easy delivery. Again, fire seems to haveplayed a foremost part in her ritual. For during her annual festival, held on thethirteenth of August, at the hottest time of the year, her grove shone with a multitudeof torches, whose ruddy glare was reflected by the lake; and throughout the length andbreadth of Italy the day was kept with holy rites at every domestic hearth. Bronzestatuettes found in her precinct represent the goddess herself holding a torch in herraised right hand; and women whose prayers had been heard by her came crownedwith wreaths and bearing lighted torches to the sanctuary in fulfilment of their vows.Some one unknown dedicated a perpetually burning lamp in a little shrine at Nemi forthe safety of the Emperor Claudius and his family. The terra-cotta lamps which havebeen discovered in the grove may perhaps have served a like purpose for humblerpersons. If so, the analogy of the custom to the Catholic practice of dedicating holycandles in churches would be obvious. Further, the title of Vesta borne by Diana atNemi points clearly to the maintenance of a perpetual holy fire in her sanctuary. Alarge circular basement at the north-east corner of the temple, raised on three stepsand bearing traces of a mosaic pavement, probably supported a round temple of Dianain her character of Vesta, like the round temple of Vesta in the Roman Forum. Herethe sacred fire would seem to have been tended by Vestal Virgins, for the head of aVestal in terra-cotta was found on the spot, and the worship of a perpetual fire, caredfor by holy maidens, appears to have been common in Latium from the earliest to thelatest times. Further, at the annual festival of the goddess, hunting dogs were crownedand wild beasts were not molested; young people went through a purificatoryceremony in her honour; wine was brought forth, and the feast consisted of a kidcakes served piping hot on plates of leaves, and apples still hanging in clusters on theboughs.  26 What is the likely reason for perpetually burning lamps found at the shrine?
(A) Warding off animals
(B) Ensuring safety for specific people
(C) Purifying young people
(D) Representing Vestal Virgins
(E) Praying for fertility