Questions 44-55. Read the following passage from Ralph Ellison's Living With Music (1955) carefully before you choose your answers
The description of the "delicate balance" (line 55) achieved at jazz jam sessions contributes to the unity of the passage in which
of the following ways?
Select one:
O a. As a contrast to the situation in the speaker's neighborhood
O b. As a condemnation of the singer's lack of talent
c. As a parallel to the drunk's attitude toward the world
d. As an indication of the essential similarity between art and life
e. As a satirical comment on the speaker's own shortcomings