The correct answer is (b) Large air gap
Easy explanation: The exact way to find the flux density owing to the simultaneous action of field and armature ampere-turns is to find the resultant ampere-turn distribution ATresultant(∅) = ATf(∅) + ATa(∅). The flux density of ATa(∅) which, because of large air-gap in the interpolar region, has a strong dip along the q-axis even though ATa(peak) is oriented along it.