Question

1. the leaves dangled like jewels - tiny droplets of ruby, pearl, topaz, amethyst, emerald, and garnet; and a carpet of such riches coated the forest floor around them. despite the ravages of conquest, this part of oakwald forest remained untouched. it still echoed with the remnants of the power that had once given these trees such unnatural beauty.
2. shed been only eight when arobynn hamel, her mentor and the king of the assassins, found her half - submerged on the banks of a frozen river and brought her to his keep on the border between adarlan and terrasen. while training her to be his finest and most loyal assassin, arobynn had never allowed her to return home to terrasen. but she still remembered the beauty of the world before the king of adarlan had ordered so much of it burned. now there was nothing left for her there, nor would there ever be. arobynn had never said it aloud, but if shed refused his offer to train her, he would have handed her to those who would have killed her. or worse. shed been newly orphaned, and even at eight, she knew that a life with arobynn, with a new name that no one would recognize but someday everyone would fear, was a chance to start over. to escape the fate that led her to leap into the icy river that night ten years ago.

which quotation from the text best supports the inference that celaenas choices were severely limited after the king of adarlans conquest?

Explanation:

The text mentions that if Celaena refused Arobynn's offer to train her as an assassin, he would have handed her to those who would have killed her. This shows her limited choices after the conquest as she had to accept the training to avoid death.

Answer:

"While training her to be his finest and most loyal assassin, Arobynn had never allowed her to return home to Terrasen. But she still remembered the beauty of the world before the King of Adarlan had ordered so much of it burned. Now there was nothing left for her there, nor would there ever be. Arobynn had never said it aloud, but if she'd refused his offer to train her, he would have handed her to those who would have killed her."