Can't answer 'cause you didn't provide an image of the passage.
It isn't certain, but since the strap was usually made of goat-skin, it could have been a symbol of fertility. By striking the women (often on the wrists) with it, it was said to ensure fertility, easy childbirth, and good health for them.
11. Graceful
12. C
13. C
14. Imaginable
15. Alluring
16. Dully
17. C
18. C
19. C
20. Noiseless
The correct plural form of echo is echos or echoes. Either way it is grammarly correct. I believe that echoes is the correct form.
echoes
Anna Quindlen's purpose is to help us to realize that the US as a whole, even though we are many different cultures and religions, we manage to find common ground as a whole.
