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