<p>[(A) Many of] Claude Monet's paintings were [(B) inspired from] the elaborate gardens the painter [(C) began] constructing [(D) when he was] forty-two years old.</p>
<p>the anwers is B
but why?</p>
<p>It's an idiom error. Should be "inspired by"</p>
<p>^Beat me to it. "Inspired by" is right.</p>