Question

Which sentence from Response to Erik of Sweden is the best textual evidence for Ethan to use to support his inference?

Answer 1

Answer:

But that we are not to give you an answer until we have seen your person is so far from the thing itself that we never even considered such a thing.

Explanation:

According to a different source, this question refers to the text in which Queen Elizabeth I responds to the marriage proposal of Erik of Sweden. The inference that Ethan makes about this text is the following:

Queen Elizabeth thinks Erik of Sweden is needlessly vain.

The best sentence from the text to use in order to support this inference is:

But that we are not to give you an answer until we have seen your person is so far from the thing itself that we never even considered such a thing.

This sentence indicates that Erik of Sweden believed Queen Elizabeth could not accept his proposal until he showed up in person. However, Queen Elizabeth is correcting him. She states that this was never a possibility, as it is not an issue of seeing him in person or not. She simply has no interest in marrying him, and she had never even considered it possible.