the ather half of Making Inferences about a Time Period in "A Century Ride"

6.question

Read the excerpt from “A Century Ride.”

“Great Scott!” he stammered, “what’s the matter? Surely ’tisn’t Mrs. Dunlop?” and he gaped at the dusty little lady, who sat on the door-step, and the wheel which lay on the roadway.

“I’m choking with thirst,” said Maude. “Get me a drink of water, and I’ll tell you,” and the Doctor bounced in for a dipper, and out to the pump for the required beverage.

“Don’t take much,” he stammered incoherently. “I’ve put a drop of whiskey in it. Now tell me, in the name of Heaven, what sent you riding across the country in this fashion?”

Which best explains the context clues for and the correct meaning of “incoherently”?

❌ Based on the context clues “great Scott,” “bounced,”
and “stammered,” the word “incoherently” means “in
an eager manner.”

❌ Based on the context clues “what’s the matter,”
“gaped,” and “bounced,” the word “incoherently”
means “in an angry manner.”

❌ Based on the context clues “gaped,” “choking,” and
“now tell me,” the word “incoherently” means “in a
nervous manner.”

✔️ Based on the context clues “stammered,” “gaped,”
and “in the name of Heaven,” the word “incoherently”
means “in a confused manner.”

7.question

Read the excerpt from “A Century Ride.”

“I’m choking with thirst,” said Maude. “Get me a drink of water, and I’ll tell you,” and the Doctor bounced in for a dipper, and out to the pump for the required beverage.

To update this excerpt to a more modern style, what slang would most likely replace “choking with thirst”?

✔️ dying of thirst
❌ getting up a thirst
❌ athirst somethin’ fierce
❌ cottonmouthed with thirst

8.question

Read the excerpt from "A Century Ride.”

When she came forward at Commencement, in a delightful little Greenaway gown of white muslin, peppered over with tiny dots, with the very smile of childhood in her wide blue eyes, and her curly hair clustering round her brows—the learned doctors, imported to adorn the Commencement exercises, blinked their eyes and looked twice, and hesitated, even then, to accept her as an established fact.

Which detail most helps the reader infer that women were not commonly expected to become doctors at this time?

❌ she came forward at Commencement
❌ smile of childhood in her wide blue eyes
❌ imported to adorn the Commencement
✔️ blinked their eyes and looked twice

9.question

Read the excerpt from “A Century Ride.”

So he foraged, and brought triumphantly forth half a chicken, a couple of slices of melon and some light biscuits, with a generous noggin of milk to wash it all down.

What word most indicates that the excerpt was written in the 1800s rather than in modern times?

❌ foraged
❌ triumphantly
❌ forth
✔️ noggin

10.question

Read the excerpt from "A Century Ride.”

Lizzie Dunlop patted the small lady’s shoulder soothingly. "There, there, little iceberg,” she said, "let it all be buried! It’s forgotten. You shall never be worried about it again. You are here to enjoy every moment of your holiday, and to tell me the news of civilization, and to take rides across the prairie. What a blessing we have a decent road for the velocipede—I beg pardon—bicycle! You must have lots of grit to mount that scary machine; and—oh! Maude! How can you want to be a surgeon? I should die if I saw a man cut up and mangled; but you are a marvel!”

Which phrase from the excerpt is most like the modern language used in writing?

❌ There, there little iceberg
✔️ You are here to enjoy every moment
❌ You must have lots of grit
❌ I should die if I saw a man cut up