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.

I belive it is B

Explanation:

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)

the answer is a)   a sentence of death costs the state "almost three times as much as a sentence of life in prison" (delon 147)