2. Read the following passage from "The Swimming Contest" in which the narrator spontaneously decides to take a holiday in an Arab village.
"That evening I was invited to join the family at supper, and Abu-Nimr introduced me to the people who sat round the table: his round-faced bustling wife, who smiled into space without resting her eyes on me; his sons, aged thirteen and fifteen, who attended high school in the city; his plump, white-skinned daughter, married to a policeman who was away from home all week, and who came home loaded with a wicker basket containing a trussed pigeon.

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2.   Read the following passage from "The Swimming Contest" in which the narrator spontaneously decides to take a holiday in an Arab village.
"That evening I was invited to join the family at supper, and Abu-Nimr introduced me to the people who sat round the table: his round-faced bustling wife, who smiled into space without resting her eyes on me; his sons, aged thirteen and fifteen, who attended high school in the city; his plump, white-skinned daughter, married to a policeman who was away from home all week, and who came home loaded with a wicker basket containing a trussed pigeon.

billyjean · Answer

apples from Betar, and a dozen eggs commandeered from some villager who happened to call at the police station. 

The food that was served was no more than a continuation of that faraway supper in the orange grove. At that moment I realized what I had come there for."
Which of these ideas is most closely related to a theme in these lines?  (1 point)

billyjean · Answer

The answer choices are fond reminders of events past
taking comfort in the support of family
sudden memories of a forgotten friend
building bridges across cultural differences