Question

Read the passage from "How Should One Read a Book?”

The thirty-two chapters of a novel—if we consider how to read a novel first—are an attempt to make something as formed and controlled as a building: but words are more impalpable than bricks; reading is a longer and more complicated process than seeing.

The author’s purpose in this passage is to

criticize.
entertain.
inform.
persuade.

Answer 1

inform — the author is explaining and describing how reading a novel differs from viewing a building, so the passage's purpose is to inform.