For decades, there has been a deep rift betweenpoetry and fiction ... ...

In the passage the author conjectures that a cause of the deep rift between fiction and poetry in the United States may be that
(A) poets and fiction writers each tend to see their craft as superior to the others’ craft
(B) ...
(C) ...
(D) ...
(E) ...

*This question is included in Free Sample 3: Moderate Passages (x2)