Which metaphor is more accurate? a quilt or a melting pot?

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.

The "most dangerous game" is a short story about a hunter, rainsford, who ends up getting hunted himself on ship-trap island by another man. this passage is part of the story's exposition. what technique does the author use to foreshadow the plot twist which is to come? a) the humor that the men share at the beginning of the story changes into tragedy and horror in an ironic way. b) whitney's lack of empathy for the hunted foreshadows that he will have to learn how the hunted feels-- the hard way. c) whitney's inability to see the island, even though he is known to have great vision, foreshadows his blindness about hunting. d) rainsford's lack of empathy for the hunted foreshadows that he will have to learn how the hunted feels-- the hard way.