Following the devastating fire that destroyed three quarters of London, ________, an architect, scientist, professor, and one of the founding fathers of the Royal Society of London, was commissioned to prepare designs for the city's reconstruction and the new St. Paul's Cathedral.
A. Milton
B. Wren
C. Handel
D. Chaucer
Answer: B
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