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SAT Reading & Writing · Command of Evidence

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Command of Evidence

In James Weldon Johnson's 1912 novel The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, the narrator, a trained pianist, hears ragtime in a New York club and reflects on the music. A scholar claims that the narrator treats ragtime's reach across the world as evidence that it is an original art form.

Which quotation from The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man most effectively illustrates the claim?