Question

Read this excerpt from the introduction to Wheels of Change by Sue Macy.

“To men, the bicycle in the beginning was merely a new toy, another machine added to the long list of devices they knew in their work and play. To women, it was a steed upon which they rode into a new world.”

—"Woman and the Wheel," Munsey’s Magazine, May 1896

What is a logical prediction about the text that follows this introduction?

It will highlight nineteenth-century toys and machines.
It will compare horses and bicycles, as they are used for transportation.
It will compare the speed of men and women on bicycles.
It will highlight the historical significance of bicycles for women.

Answer 1

It will highlight the historical significance of bicycles for women.

Reason: the quotation contrasts men's view of the bicycle as a toy/machine with women's view of it as a "steed" that opened a "new world," so the following text will likely discuss how bicycles changed women's lives.