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Word Choice and Evidence in Wheels of Change, Part 3 Answers

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Which sentence best summarizes the viewpoint Sue Macy explains in the passage?

Women’s reproductive health was threatened by cycling, and those who opposed cycling were trying to protect women.

Young women who cycled were those who wanted a different role in society.

Some disapproved of women riding bicycles because they feared it would give women greater independence.

The social lives of women were greatly enhanced by the bicycle.

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Which group of words have strong negative connotations?

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Selection 1:evil, alarming, immorality

Selection 2:Cycling is a threat to women’s morality.

Read each quotation from the chapter, and use the drop-down menus to identify the viewpoint.

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“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.”:in favor of cycling

Which details support the viewpoint that bicycling is unhealthy? Check all that apply.

“He took a four-mile, 25-minute ride with his friends that left him severely distressed.”

“[He] regularly cycled the half mile to and from his job.”

“He had a severe pain on the left side of his chest.”

“James heeded his friends’ advice.”

“The doctor's diagnosis was short and to the point: ‘over-bicycling.’”

Use the drop-down menus to identify the type of evidence presented in each supporting detail.

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“He took a four-mile, 25-minute ride with his friends that left him severely distressed.”:description

Selection 2:fact

“The doctor's diagnosis was short and to the point: ‘over-bicycling.’”:expert testimony

Which group of words have strong negative connotations?

Answers:

Selection 1:evil, alarming, immorality

Selection 2:Cycling is a threat to women’s morality.

Smith chose the underlined words for a reason. What effect did she hope to have on the audience by using words with strong negative connotations?

She wanted to encourage cycling for women’s health.

She wanted to persuade others that women should not ride bicycles.

She wanted to evoke patriotic feelings in citizens.

She wanted to convince men to ride bicycles.

in favor of cycling✔ against cycling

in favor of cycling

✔ against cycling

✔ factquotationexpert testimony

✔ fact

quotation

expert testimony

✔ Cycling is a threat to women’s morality.Bicycles are not physically safe.The United States supports female cyclists.

✔ Cycling is a threat to women’s morality.

Bicycles are not physically safe.

The United States supports female cyclists.

✔ in favor of cyclingagainst cycling

✔ in favor of cycling

against cycling

example✔ expert testimonystatistic

example

✔ expert testimony

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Word Choice and Evidence in Wheels of Change, Part 3 Answers

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Which sentence best summarizes the viewpoint Sue Macy explains in the passage?

Women’s reproductive health was threatened by cycling, and those who opposed cycling were trying to protect women.

Young women who cycled were those who wanted a different role in society.

Some disapproved of women riding bicycles because they feared it would give women greater independence.

The social lives of women were greatly enhanced by the bicycle.

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Which group of words have strong negative connotations?

Answers:

Selection 1:evil, alarming, immorality

Selection 2:Cycling is a threat to women’s morality.

Read each quotation from the chapter, and use the drop-down menus to identify the viewpoint.

Answers:

“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

Which details support the viewpoint that bicycling is unhealthy? Check all that apply.

“He took a four-mile, 25-minute ride with his friends that left him severely distressed.”

“[He] regularly cycled the half mile to and from his job.”

“He had a severe pain on the left side of his chest.”

“James heeded his friends’ advice.”

“The doctor's diagnosis was short and to the point: ‘over-bicycling.’”

Use the drop-down menus to identify the type of evidence presented in each supporting detail.

Answers:

“He took a four-mile, 25-minute ride with his friends that left him severely distressed.”:description

Selection 2:fact

“The doctor's diagnosis was short and to the point: ‘over-bicycling.’”:expert testimony

Which group of words have strong negative connotations?

Answers:

Selection 1:evil, alarming, immorality

Selection 2:Cycling is a threat to women’s morality.

Smith chose the underlined words for a reason. What effect did she hope to have on the audience by using words with strong negative connotations?

She wanted to encourage cycling for women’s health.

She wanted to persuade others that women should not ride bicycles.

She wanted to evoke patriotic feelings in citizens.

She wanted to convince men to ride bicycles.

in favor of cycling✔ against cycling

in favor of cycling

✔ against cycling

✔ factquotationexpert testimony

✔ fact

quotation

expert testimony

✔ Cycling is a threat to women’s morality.Bicycles are not physically safe.The United States supports female cyclists.

✔ Cycling is a threat to women’s morality.

Bicycles are not physically safe.

The United States supports female cyclists.

✔ in favor of cyclingagainst cycling

✔ in favor of cycling

against cycling

example✔ expert testimonystatistic

example

✔ expert testimony

statistic

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