Read this excerpt from extremely loud and incredibly close. in bed that night i invented a special drain that would be underneath every pillow in new york, and would connect to the reservoir. whenever people cried themselves to sleep, the tears would all go to the same and when something really terrible happened—like a nuclear bomb, or at least a biological weapons attack—an extremely loud siren would go off, telling everyone to get to central park to put sandbags around the reservoir. what assumption does the narrator make in this excerpt? that his creativity will be eagerly embraced that a biological weapons attack is imminent that many people express their grief through tears that volunteers are always willing to in a crisis

In this excerpt of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, the narrator assumes that What assumption does the narrator make in this excerpt is that many people express their grief through tears.

Although crying is a very common way to express one's grief, by placing a drain under every pillow in New York, the narrator assumes that most, if not all, people in the city are so sad that they cry themselves to sleep so often that they could fill a reservoir with tears.

Answer is C

Explanation:

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.

i would say c, admiration because the narrator related to the main character and she, too, once felt ashamed about her culture and wished to be an american girl to impress a boy. she felt admiration because her mom prepared her favorite foods when her and robert's (the guy she liked) family all came together and had a family reunion.