Solution
The sentence refers to a past event that affected another past event.
Therefore, the combination of the tenses would be Past perfect (event in the past) and Simple past (event that was impacted)
Sentence D makes the correct usage of these tenses (he had failed- past perfect), (received- simple past), with the right punctuation and therefore it is correct.
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