Discussion
He elicited this fact ........ the witness.
Answer: C
The right preposition is from: 'He elicited this fact from the witness.'
To elicit is to draw out information or a reaction from someone, usually by questioning. The word comes from the Latin elicere, 'to draw out', so it naturally takes from to name the source: 'elicit a reply from him', 'elicit the truth from the accused'.
With, in and on do not express the idea of drawing something out of a source, so none forms the idiom.
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