Shlomo's Big Mistake

Shlomo was an incredible king for the Jews, but was afraid that his knowledge was not vast enough. He went to G0d and asked him for the knowledge to know between right and wrong, so he could judge the Jews fairly. He did not ask him for wealth and power or anything materialistic. In response G0d gave him this knowledge and many more materialistic things. There are two different opinions on why G0d responded in this way. The first is that he was rewarding Shlomo for not requesting to have all of the wealth and items that he did not need. The other opinion is that G0d was giving him all these temptations to see if he would use them correctly (a test). The reason behind this idea is because Shlomo asked to know the difference between bad and good it was like he was asking to be too close to G0d. We got this idea from when Adam and Chava were in Gan Eiden, and they were told not too eat from the עץ לדעת טוב ורע because it was too G0dly for them. Therefore G0d gave him materialistic items to test to see if he had the potential to be G0dlike. 

Personally the second opinion makes better sense to me than the first. Why would G0d reward Shlomo with materialistic items if he knew that he would use them badly and eventually stray away from holiness? G0d doesn't purposely create a situation for us that we cannot overcome, so he must have meant for it to be a test to see if he could overcome it.