Part A What main message is the writer trying to communicate in "A Quilt of a Country"? A. The United States is very different from other countries. B. People in the United States value the idea that all people are created equal. C. It is amazing that a country made up of such diverse people can be united as one nation. D. A nation in which people are so deeply divided by ethnicity, background, and customs makes no sense. Part B Which quotation from "A Quilt of a Country" best supports the answer to Part A? A. America is an improbable idea, a mongrel nation built of ever-changing disparate parts, it is held together by a notion, the notion that all men are created equal, though everyone knows that most men consider themselves better than someone. B. "Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image," the historian Daniel Boorstin wrote. C. What is the point of a nation in which one part seems to be always on the verge of fisticuffs with another … ? D. These [people who died in the World Trade Center destruction] are the representatives of a mongrel nation that somehow, at times like this, has one spirit. Like many improbable ideas, when it actually works, it's a wonder.
