Word Choice and Evidence in Wheels of Change, Part 3
Question 4 • CA-Common Core English Language Arts 9 B
Read each quotation from the chapter, and use the drop-down menus to identify the viewpoint.
Answer
“By the time Krauss published his case study, other physicians had begun chronicling a wide variety of medical ills allegedly related to the bicycle.”:
against cycling
“At a prayer-meeting the other night Samuel Stanley arose and denounced the act of bicycle-riding as unladylike, unchristian and a disgrace to the church.”:
against cycling
“The medical experts and religious leaders charged with ensuring women's physical and moral welfare rejected [Charlotte Smith’s] predictions of doom and damnation as being greatly exaggerated.”: