Who or wat was faced with a difficult situation on the atrack of fort sumter

Northerners rallied behind Lincoln's call for all states to send troops to recapture the forts and preserve the Union.

c. the narrator’s mother is attempting to identify what her son ate

Explanation:

Read the excerpt from Infinite Jest. [Orin] stood there, he says, hefting a cold clod, playing with the Velcro on his puffy coat, watching as the Moms, bent way down to me, hand reaching, her lowering face with its presbyopic squint, suddenly stopped, froze, beginning to I.D. what it was I held out, countenancing evidence of oral contact with same. He remembers her face as past describing. What is the meaning of the excerpt

Looking at the excerpt one can conclude that the narrator’s mother is attempting to identify what her son ate