Answer:
- The sentence that best explains how the context of the excerpt supports the author's idea is: <u><em>"When photographs of the faces of all those who died in the World Trade Center destruction are assembled in one place, it will be possible to trace in the skin color, the shape of the eyes and the noses, the texture of the hair, a map of the world."</em></u>
- Quindlen uses the context of the World Trade Center attacks to describe the unity among Americans of all different nationalities.
Explanation:
We can see that Quindlen's idea that all Americans unite during times of difficulty is present when she talks about the Tade Center destruction and how people from different ethnicities and nationalities died. The loss of all of them was equally felt by Americans because, even if all the victims were different, it is the loss of the people that makes our nation.
The attack on the World Trade Center is a clear example of how Americans, even with their different nationalities, come together during hard times thank patriotism, which makes all the citizens leave their differences behind for the country.
You will put a question mark before the quotation mark because the person is asking if the baseball player said "I can do the splits."
