Question

Which quotations from “A Quilt of a Nation” develop the author’s viewpoint that America’s diversity is what unifies it?

[select all that apply]

{} "Tolerance is the word used most often when this kind of coexistence succeeds, but tolerance is a vanilla pudding word, standing for little more than the allowance of letting others live unremarked and secure."

{} "That's because it was built of bits and pieces that seem discordant, like the crazy quilts that have been one of its great folk-art forms, velvet and calico and checks and brocades. Out of many, one. That is the ideal."

{} "Many of the oft-told stories of the most pluralistic nation on earth are stories not of tolerance, but of bigotry."

{} "These are the representatives of a mongrel nation that somehow, at times like this, has one spirit."

Answer 1

{X} "That's because it was built of bits and pieces that seem discordant, like the crazy quilts that have been one of its great folk-art forms, velvet and calico and checks and brocades. Out of many, one. That is the ideal."

{X} "These are the representatives of a mongrel nation that somehow, at times like this, has one spirit."

Step-by-step explanation:

In the first option, we can justify it as a correct answer by understanding that although the many bits seem discordant, the author states that that's what makes America. "Out of many, one" in the Author's own words.

The second one is quite easier. The whole sentence has an idea of unit: One Spirit".

Answer 2

The quotations from “A Quilt of a Nation” that develop the author’s viewpoint that America’s diversity is what unifies it are:

"That's because it was built of bits and pieces that seem discordant, like the crazy quilts that have been one of its great folk-art forms, velvet and calico and checks and brocades. Out of many, one. That is the ideal."

and...

"These are the representatives of a mongrel nation that somehow, at times like this, has one spirit."

Explanation:

These two quotations talk about putting together things that are totally different so they can work in a whole.