Developing Central Ideas in Wheels of Change, Part 5 — Quiz

Question 6 • 191 CR ELA 9

Based on Chapter 4 of Wheels of Change , which quotation helps develop the central idea that some people did not support the idea of women participating in cycling races?

Answer

According to her account, the men disagreed on whether or not a woman could ride a bicycle around the world as American Thomas Stevens had done in the 1880s.

“I don’t like when my husband is with me,” [Dora Rinehart] told The Cycling West magazine in 1897. “For you know it does take so much starch out of a man to ride a century, especially if he be not in the best of shape.”

“Miss Yatman plainly showed the effects of the terrible strain in her countenance,” reported the New York Times , “and said that the ride was torture during the last twenty-five miles.”

In 1896, Sporting Life applauded what the newspaper saw as the failure of a recent six-day women's bicycle race in New York City, declaring, "This ensures that the disgusting and degrading exhibition will not soon be repeated.”

Explanation

The central idea is that some people opposed women taking part in cycling races. Choice D directly shows this opposition: Sporting Life called the women’s six-day race “disgusting and degrading” and celebrated its failure. The other quotations discuss whether a woman could ride around the world, a husband’s stamina, or the strain of a long ride, rather than condemning women’s participation in a race.

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