Discussion
Della sold her hair __________ twenty dollars.
Answer: C
The preposition is for: Della sold her hair for twenty dollars.
After verbs of buying and selling, for introduces the price: sold it for twenty dollars, bought a book for fifty rupees. (In O. Henry's story The Gift of the Magi, Della sells her hair to buy a Christmas present for her husband.)
Of, with and in cannot introduce a price. In may name the currency in general (paid in dollars), but not a sum.
The same preposition is used for exchange in general: He sold his scooter for Rs 20,000. She exchanged her old phone for a new one.
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