Which question would most likely be answered by reading the exposition of a story?

a. how would this story be different if it were set in a different time?
b. what conflicts are likely to happen with these characters?
c. how would i resolve the main character's problem if i were the writer?
d. how has the author's life affected what he or she is writing?

The question that would most likely be answered by reading the exposition of a story is What conflicts are likely to happen with these characters?

Explanation:

The exposition of a story offers to the reader information about the background of several elements in the story such as events, settings, characters, and any kind of element or event that help make sense of the story and make it understandable for the reader, then the question "What conflicts are likely to happen with these characters?" can be answered with the background information of these elements.

a. the man as a ruler

the anwser is went creeping down the river again, across the wide lonely marshes to the sea.

i longed to go with them out into the world to seek my fortune in foreign lands—africa, india, china and peru!

and, dreaming of the lands i had never seen, i'd sit on there, watching till they were out of sight.