read this excerpt from extremely loud and incredibly close.\nin bed that night i invented a special drain…

read this excerpt from extremely loud and incredibly close.\nin 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 place.... 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.\nwhat assumption does the narrator make in this excerpt?\nthat his creativity will be eagerly embraced\nthat a biological weapons attack is imminent\nthat many people express their grief through tears\nthat volunteers are always willing to help in a crisis

read this excerpt from extremely loud and incredibly close.\nin 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 place.... 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.\nwhat assumption does the narrator make in this excerpt?\nthat his creativity will be eagerly embraced\nthat a biological weapons attack is imminent\nthat many people express their grief through tears\nthat volunteers are always willing to help in a crisis

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Brief Explanations:

The narrator creates a system for tears from pillows to go to a reservoir. This implies that many people cry (express grief through tears) as there's a need for such a setup. There's no indication of creativity being embraced (no mention of others' reactions to the invention). Saying "when something really terrible happened—like... biological weapons attack" is a hypothetical, not an assumption it's imminent. And there's no mention of volunteers' willingness.

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that many people express their grief through tears