Question

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 drunk's "obsession" (lines 22-23) is ironic chiefly because the drunk
Select one:
a. Agitated the speaker purposely and distracted him from his writing
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b. Was not "poetic" (line 4) and had no basis for his obsession
O 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

Answer 1

E) Was a major source of the noise from which the speaker wished to escape.

Step-by-step explanation:

Those were the days when it was either live with music or die with noise, and we opted for the latter quite frantically. It is ironic, mostly because of the drunkenness. Was there a big source of noise from which the speaker desired to get away?