South American Indians were very resistant to the musical culture brought by the missionaries.

As re-created in Jeff Wall's photograph based on Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison's narrator needs light to

a. keep away the nightmares. b. brighten his existence. c. keep the rats at bay. d. confirm his reality.

At the Shrine at Ise, surfaces are left unpainted to symbolize __________.

a. purity b. enlightenment c. qi d. rebirth