Question

for those who love music
by axel munthe (adapted)
love music is one of the short memoirs and essays from
book vagarles. in this story, the author recounts his
interactions with an organ player and his monkey who
e streets to make money
ed him by the year. twice a week he came and went
le repertoire, and lately, out of sympathy for me, he would
re of the trovatore¹, which was his show piece, twice over
in the middle of the street looking steadfastly up at my
he played, and when he had finished he would take off his
dio, signori²
own that the barrel-organ, like the violin, gets a fuller and
elic tone the older it is. the old artist had an excellent
t of the modern noisy type which imitates a whole orchestra
bells and beats of drums, but a melancholy old-fashioned
which knew how to lend a dreamy mystery to the gayest
d in whose proudest tempo di marcia⁴ there sounded an
undertone of resignation. and in the tenderer pieces of the
e re the melody, muffled and staggering like a cracked old
groped its way amongst the rusty pipes of the treble, then
embling in the bass like suppressed sobs. now and then the
red organ failed it completely, and then the old man would
m the handle during some bars of rest more touching in their
ce than any music.
instrument was itself very expressive, but the old man had
are in the sensation of melancholy which came over me
eard his music. he had his beat in the poor quarter behind the
lantes⁵, and many times during my solitary rambles up there
d and taken my place among the scanty audience of ragged

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select the correct text in the passage.
which excerpt best develops the authors idea that there is a noticeable difference between the rich and the poor?
(5) thus we met from time to time during my rambles in the poor quarters. had i a moment to spare i stopped for a while to listen to a tune or two,
as i saw that it gratified the old man, and since i always carried a lump of sugar in my pocket for any dog acquaintance i might possibly meet, i
soon made friends with the monkey also.
(6) since the old man had once recognized his musical friend on a balcony of the hotel de lavenir, he often came and played under my windows.
later on he became engaged, as already said, to come regularly and play twice a week,—it may, perhaps, appear superfluous for one who was
studying medicine, but the old mans terms were so small, and you know i have always been so fond of music. besides it was the only recreation at
hand—i was working to take my degree in the spring.
(7) so passed the autumn, and the hard times came. the rich tried on the new winter fashions, and the poor shivered with the cold. it became more
and more difficult for well-gloved hands to leave the warm muff or the fur-lined coat to take out a copper for the beggar, and more and more
desperate became the struggle for bread amongst the problematical of the street.
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Explanation:

This excerpt directly contrasts the rich's ability to access new winter fashions with the poor struggling to stay warm and find basic necessities like bread, clearly highlighting the tangible gap between the two groups.

Answer:

(7) So passed the autumn, and the hard times came. The rich tried on the new winter fashions, and the poor shivered with the cold. It became more and more difficult for well-gloved hands to leave the warm muff or the fur-lined coat to take out a copper for the beggar, and more and more desperate became the struggle for bread amongst the problematical of the street.