Read the passage from hans christian andersen’s "the princess and the pea.” then [the queen] took twenty mattresses and laid them on the pea, and then twenty eider-down beds on top of the mattresses. on this the princess had to lie all night. in the morning she was asked how she had slept. "oh, very badly! ” said she. "i have scarcely closed my eyes all night. heaven only knows what was in the bed, but i was lying on something hard, so that i am black and blue all over my body. it’s horrible! ” now they knew that she was a real princess because she had felt the pea right through the twenty mattresses and the twenty eider-down beds. nobody but a real princess could be as sensitive as that. so the prince took her for his wife, for now he knew that he had a real princess; and the pea was put in the museum, where it may still be seen, if no one has stolen it. there, that is a true story. which quotation from the passage encompasses the climax of the story? “then [the queen] took twenty mattresses and laid them on the pea.” “in the morning she was asked how she had slept.” “‘oh, very badly! ’ said she. ‘i have scarcely closed my eyes all night.’” “so the prince took her for his wife, for now he knew that he had a real princess.”

The climax of the story is the first option, when the Queen takes twenty mattresses and lays them on a pea. As a consequence, it is revealed that the princess who has come to the castle wearing unattractive clothes to spend a stormy night is a real princess. Thus, the Queen's son - the Prince - can marry an authentic princess.

i would lay on the ground, and wait for the earth to simply take me back!

- sincerely, ouma

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