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I end up choosing a suboptimum option of (D) through process of elimination. It took me 2 minutes.

(A) "For all" = In spite of; Despite. Eliminated for the incorrect logic.

(B) For one thing, "all its historical inaccuracies" and "incorrectly describing European art, faith, and architecture" are not parallel.
For another, if we interpret "with" as "together with", the resultant meaning if nonsensical.

(C) A novel cannot own / have "inaccurate history and incorrect descriptions of European art, faith, and architecture".

(D) Is the novel a result of inaccurate history and incorrect descriptions of European art, faith, and architecture? No.
In order to choose (D), we have to force ourselves to reinterpret "As a ..." as a modifier for "was heavily criticized".
Certainly, it would be better to move "as a ..." closer to the verb it modifies. But who am I to argue with Experts' global.

(E) See (A).

Most of the times your solutions are spot on but here the OA provided is not D.
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In (A) “for all” represents “because of”.
It seems like A is the best option out of all

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A. For all its historical inaccuracies and incorrect descriptions of European art, faith, and architecture
--> Keep this one. "its" correctly refers to the noun that directly comes after this clause. "For" correctly conveys the causal relationship.

B. With all its historical inaccuracies and incorrectly describing European art, faith, and architecture
--> "historical inaccuracies" is not parallel with "incorrectly describing". "incorrect descriptions" would have been more suitable.

C. Having inaccurate history and incorrect descriptions of European art, faith, and architecture
--> It could have been "for having" and not just "having" but even then the ending phrase starting with "so much so..." would not make sense. The "criticism" can be made for the attempt to deliver "inaccurate history and incorrect descriptions".and not just having them in the book.

D. As a result of inaccurate history and incorrect descriptions of European art, faith, and architecture
--> Option A is more concise than this one. Moreover, "inaccurate history" would refer to incorrect history as a whole while "historical accuracies" would point to various events in history that were specifically incorrect and not the entire history. Hence, there is a slight meaning difference.

E. Despite inaccurate history and incorrect descriptions of European art, faith, and architecture
--> Despite conveys contrast and that is not intended here.

IMO Option A

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