Question

Reread the following section.

Sometimes it is the other way around. A white person is set down in our midst, but the contrast is just as sharp for me. For instance, when I sit in the drafty basement that is The New World Cabaret with a white person, my color comes. We enter chatting about any little nothing that we have in common and are seated by the jazz waiters. In the abrupt way that jazz orchestras have, this one plunges into a number. It loses no time in circumlocutions, but gets right down to business. It constricts the thorax and splits the heart with its tempo and narcotic harmonies. This orchestra grows rambunctious, rears on its hind legs and attacks the tonal veil with primitive fury, rending it, clawing it until it breaks through to the jungle beyond. I follow those heathen—follow them exultingly. I dance wildly inside myself; I yell within, I whoop; I shake my assegai above my head, I hurl it true to the mark yeeeeooww! I am in the jungle and living in the jungle way. My face is painted red and yellow and my body is painted blue. My pulse is throbbing like a war drum. I want to slaughter something—give pain, give death to what, I do not know. But the piece ends. The men of the orchestra wipe their lips and rest their fingers. I creep back slowly to the veneer we call civilization with the last tone and find the white friend sitting motionless in his seat, smoking calmly.
"Good music they have here," he remarks, drumming the table with his fingertips.
Music! The great blobs of purple and red emotion have not touched him. He has only heard what I felt. He is far away and I see him but dimly across the ocean and the continent that have fallen between us. He is so pale with his whiteness then and I am so colored.

Question
From the description of the performance at the jazz club, the reader can infer that
Select one:
a. the New World Cabaret does not have many white patrons.
b. the author values jazz as a part of her cultural heritage.
c. the musicians in the orchestra are African American.
d. the white friend did not enjoy the performance.

Answer 1

The reader can infer that the author holds jazz music in high regard as a significant part of her cultural heritage, experiencing it in a powerful and personal way that contrasts with her white friend's detached perspective. Option (B) is correct.

Step-by-step explanation:

From the description of the performance at the jazz club, the reader can infer that the author values jazz as a part of her cultural heritage. The intensity and passion for the music are articulated, illustrating a deep personal connection and contrast to the white friend's casual and detached observation.

The description of the music's impact on the author emphasizes an intimate and visceral experience, which not only encompasses the vibrant energy of the jazz culture but also reflects the broader cultural, emotional, and historical significance of jazz within the African-American community.

Cultural heritage can be defined as the legacy of physical artifacts (cultural property) and intangible attributes of a group or society inherited from the past. Cultural Heritage is a concept that offers a bridge between the past and the future with the application of particular approaches in the present.

Cultural heritage includes artefacts, monuments, a group of buildings and sites, museums that have a diversity of values including symbolic, historic, artistic, aesthetic, ethnological or anthropological, scientific and social significance.