Read the excerpt from chapter 4 of wheels of change. not surprisingly, rinehart wasn’t afraid to speak her mind. in 1894, she testified at the annual conventional of the colorado state medical society about the benefits of the divided skirt for female cyclists. “it is almost impossible for a lady to ride any distance . . with the ordinary skirt,” she told the mostly male audience. “you get too much of the dress on one side of the wheel, and you do not get enough of the dress on the other side.” rinehart’s success brought her a number of product endorsements, including stearns bicycles, samson tires, and the rinehart skirt, a divided skirt designed in her honor by a seamstress in denver. the quotations in this passage develop the central idea that the invention of the bicycle brought with it many changes, such as a. new clothing options for competing women. b. fierce competition among women cyclists. c. feelings that women should not be racing. d. laws that banned women from competing.

Read the excerpt from "the storyteller." the smaller girl created a diversion by beginning to recite "on the road to mandalay.” she only knew the first line, but she put her limited knowledge to the fullest possible use. she repeated the line over and over again in a dreamy but resolute and very audible voice; it seemed to the bachelor as though some one had had a bet with her that she could not repeat the line aloud two thousand times without stopping. whoever it was who had made the wager was likely to lose his bet. "come over here and listen to a story,” said the aunt, when the bachelor had looked twice at her and once at the communication cord. the children moved listlessly towards the aunt’s end of the carriage. evidently her reputation as a storyteller did not rank high in their estimation. in a low, confidential voice, interrupted at frequent intervals by loud, petulant questionings from her listeners, she began an unenterprising and deplorably uninteresting story about a little girl who was good, and made friends with every one on account of her goodness, and was finally saved from a mad bull by a number of rescuers who admired her moral character. which instances of situational irony occur in the passage? select two options. a.) “whoever it was who had made the wager was likely to lose his bet.” b.) “‘come over here and listen to a story,’ said the aunt, when the bachelor had looked twice at her and once at the communication cord.” -- c.) “the children moved listlessly towards the aunt’s end of the carriage.” d.) “evidently her reputation as a story-teller did not rank high in their estimation.” -- e.) “in a low, confidential voice, interrupted at frequent intervals by loud, petulant questionings from her listeners, she began an unenterprising and deplorably uninteresting story about a little girl who was good.”