50 POINTS, No incorrect answers please, I will report incorrect answers.

Refer to Explorations in Literature for a complete version of this essay.

Which quotations from “A Quilt of a Country” develop the author’s viewpoint that America’s diversity is what unifies it?
Select each correct answer.

A. "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."

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

C. "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."

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