Questions 3-6 refer to the following passage.

It can be inferred that the author regards McMurtry’s treatment of character with

a. Regret because McMurtry did not adhere to Western novelistic conventions

b. Concern that the characterizations altered the nature of the Western formula

c. Approval for the manner in which their inclusion transformed the Western genre

d. Puzzlement, because the characters seem insignificant to the plot

e. Enthusiasm, because the characters reform the conventionality of Western plots

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The literature of the American West ranges from lowbrow entertainment to great works of fiction. The extremes are obvious enough, but Line the middle tends to blur. The dime-store Western (5) never aspired to be anything but entertainment. James Fenimore Cooper and Willa Cather, however, used themes of westward expansion in works clearly intended as highbrow literature. The novels of modern writer Larry McMurtry (10) broke new ground: He took the Western and created a great piece of fiction, without changing its fundamental genre appeal or its accessibility to the general reader.