Item 4 Evidence-Based Selected-Response Technology-Enhanced

This question has two parts. Answer Part A, and then answer Part B.

Part A

What motivates Caleb to want to become a Pony Express rider?

A. a desire to be independent from his family

B. a need for adventure in his life

C. a desire to make a great deal of money

D. a need to travel to other places

Part B

Which sentence from the story BEST supports the answer in Part A?

A. Caleb Sewell was taken off guard at being addressed as Mister, especially by a man wearing a suit that

Caleb couldn’t afford with the wages of his last month’s work.

B. He must never exhaust the horses; he would ride six or seven each day, and they were the lifeline of

the whole enterprise.

C. He had no words to explain their disappointment at his wanting to chart his own course, not to mention

how effortlessly he’d settled into a life on the plains.

D. The horse bolted for the open road, but Caleb’s deft touch convinced the horse of the pace they would maintain.