Developing Central Ideas in Wheels of Change, Part 5 — Quiz
Question 9 • 191 CR ELA 9
Read the excerpt from Chapter 4 of Wheels of Change . When Americans took to the wheel in the late 1800s, they also took to the newsstand. The first U.S. cycling periodical, Bicycling World , rolled off the presses in 1877, a year before Colonel Albert Pope introduced his Columbia high wheeler. By 1894, there were more than 50 cycling publications to choose from stateside and many more around the world. The statistic in the last sentence helps develop the idea that bicycle racing was a popular sport in the 1880s and 1890s by showing that
Answer
A
the rapid increase in publications about cycling was directly responsible for Americans’ growing interest in bicycles.
B
Americans’ fascination with the bicycle influenced the rapid growth that occurred in the publication industry.
C
Americans became interested in cycling around the same time that the publication industry began to flourish.
D
the success of the first cycling periodical in 1877 quickly led to the publication of many more cycling magazines.
Explanation
The passage says cycling publications grew from the first U.S. periodical in 1877 to more than 50 by 1894. That increase suggests publishers responded to widespread interest in bicycles and cycling. Choice B best expresses this connection; the passage does not show that publications caused the interest or that the first magazine alone led to the later growth.
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