According to the passage, a political novel often turns out to be:

Concept

Literal reading comprehension requires selecting the choice that matches an explicit statement in the passage. Related ideas may provide context, but they do not replace the passage’s direct assertion.

Application

The passage says that a political novel is not merely a novel about politics; it becomes a novel with a politics of its own. It explains that such a novel advances definite ideas about how things should be and seeks to move the reader toward a particular cause or ideology.

Contrast

• Literary distaste for politics describes an attitude discussed at the opening of the passage, not what a political novel is said to become.

• Literary representation of politics names the broad act of depicting politics in literature, while the passage makes a more specific claim about the novel’s own ideological direction.

• A novel with its own politics directly matches the passage’s wording and its explanation of an ideological aim.

• Depiction of murky political practice is mentioned as a point from which the passage distinguishes the politics of representation.

Cross-check

Substituting ‘a novel with its own politics’ into the stem reproduces the passage’s sentence and preserves its contrast between being about politics and carrying an ideological direction.

Therefore, the passage supports ‘Novel with its own politics.’