Dee says that the priceless quilts will be destroyed. Mama says that Maggie knows how to ______ and can make more. Maggie shuffles in and, trying to make ____, offers Dee the quilts. When Mama looks at Maggie, she is struck by a strange feeling, similar to the spirit she feels sometimes in church. Impulsively, she hugs Maggie, pulls her into the room, snatches the quilts out of Dee's hands, and places them in Maggie's lap. She tells Dee to take one or two of the other quilts. As Dee and Hakim-a-barber leave, Dee informs Mama that Mama does not understand her own _____. Kissing Maggie, Dee tells her to try and ______herself and that it's a new day for ______ Americans. Mama and Maggie watch the car drive off, then sit in the quiet of the yard until bedtime.
a) sew; amends; heritage; elevate; African
b) embroider; reparations; ancestry; uplift; Indigenous
c) stitch; reparations; lineage; uplift; Native
d) quilt; restitution; background; ennoble; Native