Refer to your Expeditions in Reading book for a complete version of this text. Which detail from “A Ride in the Night” best supports the inference that John Clark would prefer to be the one to deliver the horses, rather than Will?

“‘What better password is there for a man with a son on the Kentucky frontier?’”
“‘Oh, if only I had not dropped that stone on my foot last week!’”
“He looked hard at Will. ‘Yes, he’s too young,’ John Clark agreed.”
“‘Listen carefully to me,’ said John Clark. ‘You must carry out my directions to the letter.’”

Question:

Refer to your Expeditions in Reading book for a complete version of this text.

A) Which detail from “A Ride in the Night” best supports the inference that John Clark would prefer to be the one to deliver the horses, rather than Will?

“‘What better password is there for a man with a son on the Kentucky frontier?’”

B) “‘Oh, if only I had not dropped that stone on my foot last week!’”

C) “He looked hard at Will. ‘Yes, he’s too young,’ John Clark agreed.”

D) “‘Listen carefully to me,’ said John Clark. ‘You must carry out my directions to the letter.’”

B) “‘Oh, if only I had not dropped that stone on my foot last week!’”

Explanation:

1) If you actually read the story you'd know that Will's Mother did not want him to deliver the horses because she thought he was too young.

2) I've read the story, done the test, and gotten every answer correct.

3) In the beginning of the passage it explain how Will's Father, John Clark, dropped a stone on his foot last week.

4) Both John Clark, and his Mother don't know if he should go but still he  does because his Father, John Clark, believes in him that he will complete the mission more than his Mother.

5) John Clark really wishes that he could go but he injured himself. Therefore, stating he would rather go than his youngest son.

(Off topic but Will's Mother says in the end of this paragraph "Now I have <Insert Number> son's serving in the army.")

b

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