Discussion
__________ little rice that the shopkeeper offered me was of an inferior quality.
Answer: A
The answer is The: The little rice that the shopkeeper offered me was of an inferior quality.
The little means 'the small amount that there was'. The relative clause that the shopkeeper offered me identifies exactly which rice is meant, so the noun phrase is definite and takes the.
A little rice means 'some rice' and does not fit a quantity already pinned down by the clause that follows. An cannot come before the consonant sound of little, and without any article little rice would mean 'hardly any rice', which does not suit a sentence about that rice's quality.
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