Questions 1-11 are based on the following passage. Planting the Delta Blues
As the Mississippi dusk settled on Dockery Farms on Saturday 1 evenings' in the early 1900s,
hundreds would cross a one-lane bridge to hear the blues. There, bluesmen played and sang in a
repurposed home they called the Frolicking House. Once a week, the furniture was placed
outdoors to make room for the burgeoning crowd, and wall-sized mirrors reflected coal oil
lanterns, setting the house aglow and 2 irradiating the way for stragglers. For anyone who could
pay a twenty-five-cent fee, there was space inside next to the musicians, who sometimes played
until dawn.