Question

Direction: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows:

“Do you have your audience in mind when you sit down to write,” Toni Morrison was once asked. “Only me,” she replied. I love the faith she has in her own craft. This is her talking to students in Mississippi. “As I write I don’t imagine a reader or listener, ever. I am the reader and the listener myself, and I think I am an excellent reader… I mean I really know what’s going on… I have to assume that I am also this very critical, very fastidious, and not an easily-taken-in reader who is smart enough to participate in the text—a lot.” And she speaks often of loving the rewrite—” The best part of all, the absolutely most delicious part… I try to make it look like I never touched it.” It is her care for the gradually discovered story that makes us fully trust her. It is how we are intimately altered by her books, and it was why Beloved would change everything.

Which one of the following can be concluded about the writing style of Morrison? 

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• Morrison places herself at the center of each text and all other characters are a representation of her different personality traits.

• Morrison’s writing has shimmering hints of autobiographical elements.

• Morrison revisits her older works to draw inspiration.

• Morrison is selfish when it comes to writing a text and thinks of no one but herself while writing.

Answer 1

Morrison is selfish when it comes to writing a text and thinks of no one but herself while writing.

Explanation:

One cannot necessarily infer how the characters of Morrison’s writing are developed. Hence, morrison places herself at the center of each text and all other characters are a representation of her different personality traits is incorrect. 
Morrison’s writing has shimmering hints of autobiographical elements and morrison revisits her older works to draw inspiration are out of scope and cannot be inferred from the passage. Referring to the first few lines of the passage, one can infer that Morisson only has herself in mind when writing. 
This makes Morrison is selfish when it comes to writing a text and thinks of no one but herself while writing the correct answer.