Which of the following quotes from Quindlen's essay directly supports her comparison of American to a quilt?
"Perhaps they understand it at this moment [in the aftermath of 9/11], when enormous tragedy, as it so often does, demands a time of reflection on enormous blessings."
These historians must have forgotten the past, or have gilded it.
"America is an improbable idea, a mongrel nation built of ever-changing disparate parts"
Their kids are doing well in school. They're making it. Sound familiar?"