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.
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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."
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