What exactly are your trying to ask here? The question is not complete.
B is the correct answer because the king want's answers to how he should he handle the problem because the king could always handle any problem his people gave him but that one question he couldn't answer so his people (knights magicians) told him to seek out to the hermit for the hermits wisdom.
That is why B is your answer. I hope this helped you sir.
Answer: The answer here is a Compound Sentence.
Explanation: A Compound Sentence is simply two sentences in one. If you take away the FANBOY (Coordinating Conjunction) out of the sentence, you're left with two separate and complete simple sentences.
