Read this passage from "marian anderson sings":   "anderson's manager wrote to make arrangements. the date he wanted was already taken, he was told. he suggested other dates in april. he was told that those were taken, too. in fact, no dates were available at all."  why does the author of the story include this passage?   a. to show that constitution hall is a popular venue for singers in the month of april   b. to show that anderson was being discriminated against for her race   c. to show how difficult and competitive the music business can be   d. to show that anderson was not popular enough to be able to reserve constitution hall

He leaned his head against the wall; his eyes were shut, his hands clasped in each other, and his body seemed to be sustained in an upright position merely by the cellar-door against which he rested his left shoulder. the lethargy into which he was sunk seemed scarcely interrupted by my feeling his hand and his forehead. his throbbing temples and burning skin indicated a fever . . there was only one circumstance that hindered me from forming an immediate determination in what manner this person should be treated. my family consisted of my wife and a young child. our servant-maid had been seized, three days before, by the reigning malady, and, at her own request, had been conveyed to the hospital. we ourselves enjoyed good health, and were hopeful of escaping with our lives. our measures for this end had been cautiously taken and carefully adhered to. they did not consist in avoiding the receptacles of infection, for my office required me to go daily into the midst of them; nor in filling the house with the exhalations of gunpowder, vinegar, or tar. they consisted in cleanliness, reasonable exercise, and wholesome diet. who is the story’s first-person narrator