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Direction: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. They wore his face on their chests, waved it on posters, chanted his name and quoted his slogans, 19,000 fans drawn to a single star. His image stared down from the big screen at Madison Square Garden and emerged on canvas in a live speed painting on stage. And when the man himself emerged, the capacity crowd in New York's most storied arena roared as one, as if all the New York Knicks, all the New York Rangers, Billy Joel and Bruce Springsteen had suddenly materialized. "Modi! Modi! Modi!" the audience chanted, drowning out the announcer's attempt to introduce the man who needed no introduction: Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India, whom 19,000 people had travelled from around the country and Canada to see 'speak' on his first trip to the United States since being elected in May. The American tour has showcased Modi as a diplomat and world leader, but at Madison Square Garden in New York, he was all celebrity, embracing the adulation of a diaspora that maintains strong ties to the motherland. His hero's welcome must have seemed slightly stunning to the three dozen or so US elected officials who turned up to greet him, including several senators, 30- odd representatives and one governor, each of whom strode on stage to no more than polite applause.

'His hero's welcome must have seemed slightly stunning to the three dozen or so US elected officials...' Why?

 

A) Adulation of the crowd for the political leader of a foreign land were matching that of the celebrity stars.

B) The exaltation of audience at Madison Square Garden had been unprecedented.

C) Never before any Indian Prime Minister has received such hero-worship.

D) All of these

E) None of these