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.

The author is likely to agree with which of the following?

पर्याय

• Morrison shows great care and concern for her audience.

• Morrison revisits her stories and moulds it as per the requirements of the audience.

• The reason why her audience trusts her is because of her care for the story.

• The audience remains unaltered by her books.

Answer 1

The reason why her audience trusts her is because of her care for the story.

Explanation:

Refer to the second last line of the passage, “It is her care for the gradually discovered story that makes us fully trust her”. This clearly makes the reason why her audience trusts her is because of her care for the story the correct answer. All other options cannot be inferred from the passage and are incorrect.