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Read the excerpt from "A Quilt of a Country."
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. "Of all the nations in the world, the
United States was built in nobody's image," the historian
Daniel Boorstin wrote. 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.
TIMI
Which word from the excerpt carries a positive
connotation?
O improbable
O nobody
O crazy
O ideal
