Questions 44-55. Read the following passage from Ralph Ellison’s Living With Music (1955) carefully before you choose your answers. That the speaker “sympathized with” the drumk’s “obsession” (lines 22-23) is ironic chiefly because the drumk
Select one:
a. Agitated the speaker purposely and distracted him from his writing
b. Was not “poetic” ( line 4) and had no basis for his obsession
c. Actually disturbed the speaker less than did the singer
d. Had little “sensitivity” (line 7) and was undeserving of sympathy
e. Was a major source of the noise from which the speaker wished to escape