Which of these inferences is best supported by the excerpt shown below? Queen Elizabeth I, Henry VIII's second daughter, came to the throne in 1558. Famous for her wit and eloquence, she knew Greek, Latin, and
several modern languages and loved music, dancing, and the theater. Her long reign of forty-five years was marked by religious conflicts, political
intrigue, and threats of war. She turned England into a great sea power capable of defeating the feared Spanish Armada. With a nimble
intelligence and strong personality, she also supported a flourishing period of cultural achievement. Elizabeth's court served as a forum for daring
displays of wit that the queen greatly admired-and in which she skillfully participated. Her favorites, privileged members of the court, exemplified
the qualities she most admired. Sir Walter Raleigh, for example, combined many occupations: soldier and sailor, explorer of Virginia and Guiana,
poet and scientist, possible spy. He began to write his History of the World while imprisoned in the Tower of London by Elizabeth's successor, her
cousin James I.
A Queen Elizabeth's proudest achievement was the defeat of the Spanish armada.
B. Queen Elizabeth had a long covert romance with Sir Walter Raleigh.
C. Queen Elizabeth's intellectual passion encouraged her subjects' pioneering in thought and expression.
O D. James I sought to eradicate all that his predecessor had done while on the throne.

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one thousand and one nights, also called the arabian nights is a collection of middle eastern tales compiled in arabic during the islamic golden age, dated from the 8th to the 14th century. this collection was compiled of largely middle eastern and indian stories with an uncertain date and autorship whose tales such as aladdin, ali baba and sinbad the sailor -these ones were the most popular ones, the ones that have almost become part of western folklore.

as in much medieval european literature, the stories contained in this collection are set within a frame story. its scene is central asia, as known as "the islands or peninsulae of india and china", where king shahryar kills his wife after discovering her infidelities and as well as any other who betrayed him.   then, loathing all womankind, he marries and kills his new wife each day until no more candidates could have been found. his vizier had two daughters, scheherezade and dunyazad. the elder one -scheherezade- having devised a scheme to save herself and the others insisted that her father needed to give her in marriage to the king. each evening, she used to tell a story leaving it incomplete and promising to finish it the following night. the stories kept the king very interested, so eager to hear evey ending of each story, that he puts off her execution from day to day and finally he decided to give up with his plan. these stories are contained within the collection of 1001 nights, the bulk of the text is in prose, although verse is usually used for songs and riddles to express better the heightened emotion of them.

the answer to "what does the narrator realize by the end of the story" is b.