Read paragraphs 8–11 of the text. Then answer the multiple-choice questions that follow. From “Are the New ‘Golden Age’ TV Shows the New Novels?” by Adam Kirsch and Mohsin Hamid 8 Ask novelists whether they spend more time watching TV or reading fiction and prepare yourself to hear them say the unsayable. 9 Movies have always seemed to me a much tighter form of storytelling than novels, requiring greater compression, and in that sense falling somewhere between the short story and the novel in scale. To watch a feature film is to be immersed in its world for an hour and a half, or maybe two, or exceptionally three. A novel that takes only three hours to read would be a short novel indeed, and novels that last five times as long are commonplace. 10 Television is more capacious. Episode after episode, and season after season, a serial drama can uncoil for dozens of hours before reaching its end. Along the way, its characters and plot have room to develop, to change course, to congeal. In its near limitlessness, TV rivals the novel. 11 What once sheltered the novel were differences in the quality of writing. Films could be well written, but they were smaller than novels. TV was big, but its writing was clunky. The novel had “Pride and Prejudice”; TV had “Dynasty.” But television has made enormous leaps in the last decade or so. The writing has improved remarkably, as have the acting, direction and design.

In Paragraph 9, Hamid reveals that “Movies have always seemed to me a much tighter form of storytelling than novels, requiring greater compression, and in that sense falling somewhere between the short story and the novel in scale.” Which commentary best responds to this text evidence?

A.) This text evidence shows that storytelling in movies is tighter and smaller in scope than novels.
B.) This text evidence shows that storytelling in movies is more like a short story than a novel.
C.) This text evidence shows that storytelling in movies is similar to storytelling in television.
D.) This text evidence shows that storytelling in movies is greater in scale and larger in scope than novels.