Q14

[slimz89]

Can someone give me a line number that references to answer C?

[christine.defenbaugh]

Thanks for posting slimz89!

The challenge on comparative passage identification questions that focus only on a single passage is the temptation to drag to other passage into the answers!

Answer (C) is supported here by lines 31-34, where she is quoted as preferring the title of narrative to novel as a descriptor of one of her works. As this is a response to critics who "assert vehemently that it is not a novel", this preference can be interpreted as Cather acknowledging that the work does not fit straightforwardly into the category of the novel.

This question can also be handily sorted by process of elimination:
(A) The narratologists in Passage B are invoked only to mention how they define narrative, what they focus on in their criticism, and what they do not. Narratologists' views on Cather never appear.
(B) The only mention of Cather's thoughts/opinions/beliefs is stated above - no mention is made of her opinions of novelists preceding her.
(D) Turgenev and Tolstoy never appear in the passage.
(E) The second paragraph discusses critics that view Cather's work as flawed, but there's no hint that most contemporary critics share this view.

Please let me know if that completely answers your question!