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Read the excerpt from "A Quilt of a Country,"
Which sentence from the excerpt best reveals the
context of the excerpt?
Once these disparate parts were held together by a
common enemy, by the fault lines of world wars and the
electrified fence of communism. With the end of the cold
war there was the creeping concern that without a focus
for hatred and distrust, a sense of national identity would
evaporate, that the left side of the hyphen-African-
American, Mexican-American, Irish-American—would
overwhelm the right. And slow-growing domestic
traumas like economic unrest and increasing crime
seemed more likely to emphasize division than
community. Today the citizens of the United States have
come together once more because of armed conflict and
O Once these disparate parts were held together by a
common enemy, by the fault lines of world wars and
the electrified fence of communism.
O With the end of the cold war there was the creeping
concern that without a focus for hatred and distrust, a
sense of national identity would evaporate, that the left
side of the hyphen-African-American, Mexican-
American, Irish-American—would overwhelm the
right.
O And slow-growing domestic traumas like economic
unrest and increasing crime seemed more likely to
emphasize division than community.
O Today the citizens of the United States have come
together once more because of armed conflict and
enemy attack
enemy attack.
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