PART A. What is the main argument or claim in the lecture?


A
Works of fiction can have a powerful impact on a society.

B
Novels can sell just as well as the Bible if they are popular.

C
Stories with strong characters help people understand problems.

D
Harriet Beecher Stowe was an important historical novelist.

PART B. Select the sentence that identifies the speaker's primary reason in paragraph 2, supporting his or her main argument or claim from Part A.


A
One novelist who spurred social change in the United States is Harriet Beecher Stowe.

B
Stowe's anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, both launched Stowe to fame and helped bring the anti-slavery cause into the mainstream.

C
The book was enormously popular: From 1850 to 1900, only the Bible outsold it.

D
Simon Legree, the brutal slave owner who serves as the book's chief villain, became a familiar object of fear, revulsion, and contempt.