Select the correct text in the passage.
Which two sentences in the excerpt suggest that Policles loved quality music?
The Contest
by Arthur Conan Doyle (adapted excerpt)
The blue-clad player struck several chords upon his lyre, and then burst suddenly out into the "Ode of Niobe," and Policles sat straight up on his bench and gazed at the
stage in amazement. The tune demanded a rapid transition from a low note to a high, and had been purposely chosen for this reason. The low note was a grunting, a
rumble, the deep discordant growling of an ill-conditioned dog. Then suddenly the singer threw up his face, straightened his figure, rose upon his tiptoes, and with wagging
head and scarlet cheeks emitted a howl. All the while the lyre twanged and thrummed, sometimes in front of and sometimes behind the voice of the singer. But what
amazed Policles most of all was the effect of this performance upon the audience. Every Greek was a trained critic, and as unsparing in his hisses as he was lavish in his
applause. Many a singer far better than this absurd fop had been driven from the platform, but now, as the man stopped and wiped the abundant sweat from his face, the
whole assembly burst into a delirium of appreciation. The shepherd held his hands to his bursting head and felt that his reason must be leaving him, for it was surely a
dreadful musical nightmare, and he would wake soon and laugh at the remembrance. But no, the figures were real, the faces were those of his neighbours, and the cheers
which resounded in his ears were indeed from an audience which filled the theatre of Olympia. The whole chorus was in full blast, the hummers humming, the shouters
bellowing, the tappers hard at work upon the benches, while every now and then came a musical cyclone of "Incomparable! Diviner from the trained phalanx who intoned
their applause, their united voices sweeping over the tumult as the drone of the wind dominates the roar of the sea. It was madness-insufferable madness! If this were
allowed to pass, there was an end of all musical justice in Greece. Policles' conscience would not permit him to be still. Standing upon his bench with waving hands and
up-raised voice, he protested with all the strength of his lungs against the mad judgment of the audience.