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Direction: In the following questions, you have several brief passages with some questions following each passage. Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

Passage - 4

A mask is a covering for the head or face. It was one of the first ways in which primitive man expressed his artistic instinct. Primitive tribes used masks to ensure a good harvest, a safe hunt and to ward off evil. Masks were also worn by merrymakers at festivals. Masks of change are believed to turn the wearer into the spirit, animal of demon that the mask depicts. Thus the shaman (medical man) masks of the Eskimos are supposed to establish a mystic link with the spirit concerned. They induce a state of trance and possession before effecting a cure.

The masks worn by shamans helped them

A) conceal their identity while attempting to cure a sick person

B) create a link with the spirits in order to cure the sick

C) overcome their shyness

D) protect themselves from infection