10 points for correct answer. refer to explorations in literature for a complete version of this essay. which quotation most accurately explains why anna quindlen wrote “a quilt of a country”? “what is the point of a nation in which one part seems to be always on the verge of fisticuffs with another, blacks and whites, gays and straights, left and right, pole and chinese and puerto rican and slovenian? ” “these are the representatives of a mongrel nation that somehow, at times like this, has one spirit.” “there is that calvinist undercurrent in the american psyche that loves the difficult, the demanding, that sees mastering the impossible, whether it be prairie or subway, as a test of ” “perhaps they understand it at this moment, when enormous tragedy, as it so often does, demands a time of reflection on enormous blessings.“