The French novelist Colette (1873–1954) has been widely praised for th

Sure abhishek,
So the passage tells us that the poet's poems raise indifference to the questions posed... The conclusion says that the poems do raise these moral questions... The assumption must be in the lines of the fact that.
If you raise moral questions... You need to be indifferent.. Which is explained by option B... Correct ne if I'm wrong cheers

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How the option B is better then E?

See the passage's last sentence. Isn't it making a jump, which is what you look for first in assumption question, from emotional crises from her times to raising moral questions? Here the highlighted text is conclusion which is backed by reasoning given afterwords in the two sentences.

The French novelist Colette (1873–1954) has been widely praised for the vividness of her language. But many critics complain that her novels are indifferent to important moral questions. This charge is unfair. Each of her novels is a poetic condensation of a major emotional crisis in the life of an ordinary person of her time. Such emotional crises almost invariably raise important moral questions.

Which one of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?
(A) Critics who suggest that Colette’s novels are indifferent to great moral questions of her time greatly underestimate her literary achievements. - WRONG . No relation between emotional crises and raising moral questions is provided.
(B) A novel that poetically condenses a major emotional crisis does not have to be indifferent to the important moral questions raised by that crisis. - CORRECT. Naturally, the condensation in a poem considered the vary aspect for which her critics complained.
(C) To deserve the level of praise that Colette has received, a novelist’s work must concern itself with important moral questions. - WRONG. Point in wrong direction. Goes offtrack because of red text.
(D) The vividness of Colette’s language was not itself the result of poetic condensation. - WRONG. Like C, this one also lost its way.
(E) Colette’s purpose in poetically condensing emotional crises in the lives of characters in her novels was to explore some of the important moral questions of her time. - WRONG. Whether it was to explore or it came naturally as pointed by option B, it was not about purpose. The relation between two is nowhere can be seen explained in this one.

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