Psychologists suggest that to cure cruelty

It is clear from the passage that Susan Eloise Hinton

1. 
   initially didn't want her readership to know she was female
   
2. 
   wrote purely romantic novels
   
3. 
   was not successful until later in life
   
4. 
   had little formal education due to her financial circumstances
   

2. We could describe the fiction of Susan Eloise Hinton as

1. 
   overly sentimental and quite superficial
   
2. 
   featuring youth culture and the problems thereof
   
3. 
   popular with teenagers, but not with critics
   
4. 
   more popular with males than with females
   

3.The author of the passage emphasizes that teenagers

1. 
   became more violent as a direct result of reading Hinton's books
   
2. 
   found Hinton's stories patronizing and humiliating
   
3. 
   preferred Hinton's books to the films made from them
   
4. 
   could identify with the characters and plots of Hinton's books