Directions: In this part there are several passages followed by questions or unfinished statements, each with four suggested answers marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet. 
Passage One 
(1) There are certain women singers who possess, beyond all the boundaries of our admiration for their art, an uncanny power to evoke our love. And when we encounter the simple dignity for their immediate presence, we suddenly ponder the mystery of human greatness. 
(2) Mahalia Jackson, a large handsome, brown-skinned woman who began singing in her father’ s church at age of five, is a Negro of the American Negros. Born in New Orleans, she left school in the eighth grade went to work as a nursemaid. Later she worked in the cotton fields of Louisiana and as a domestic. Her social life was centered in the Baptist church. She grew up with the sound of jazz in her ears and, being an admirer of Bessie Smith, was aware of the prizes and acclaim awaiting any mistress of the blues: but in her religious views the blues and jazz were profane forms and a temptation to be resisted. She also knew something of the painful experiences that go into the forging of a true singer of the blues. 
(3) In 1927 Mahalia went to Chicago, where she worked as laundress and studied beauty culture. Here, too, her social and artistic life was in the Negro community, centered in the Greater Salem Baptist Church. She became a member of the choir and a soloist with a quintet that toured the churches affiliated with the National Baptist Convention. Up until the forties she operated within a world of music confined, for the most part, to Negro communities, and it was by her ability to move such audiences as are found in these that her reputation grew. It was also such audiences that, by purchasing over two million copies of her famous “Move On Up a Little Higher, ” brought her to national attention. 
(4) When listening to such recordings as Sweet Little Jesus Boy, Bless This House, we cannot escape the fact that Mahalia Jackson possessed of a profound religious conviction. Nor can we escape the awareness that no singer living has a great ability to move us—regardless of our own religious attitudes—with the projected emotion of a song.