Dai Sijie's 2000 novel Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress is re… | Verbal SAT Question

Which choice most logically completes the text?

Dai Sijie’s 2000 novel Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress is regularly described as autobiographical. This description has some merit—there are many parallels between the experiences of the novel’s unnamed narrator and those of Sijie—but it can also be misleading in its implication that Sijie is concerned with fidelity to the truth. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress is a complex interweaving of interpretations, deliberate alterations, and pure invention; readers should therefore be wary of concluding that

Sijie was conscious of drawing on any of his actual experiences when writing Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress.

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress contains any material that could illuminate aspects of Sijie’s life or perspective.

Sijie intended Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress to be understood as fiction.

all events and characters depicted in Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress have real-world analogues.