Refer to your Expeditions in Reading book for a complete version of this text. Read the excerpt from “Run, Kate Shelley, Run.”

While Kate lay in bed recovering from that terrible night, every train passing the farmhouse blew its whistle in her honor. Then the people of Iowa awarded her a gold medal, and the railroad gave her one hundred dollars and a lifetime railroad pass. The nation honored Kate, too. However, the honor most dear to her came from the railroad men themselves. As long as she lived in Moingona, Iowa, they recognized brave Kate in their own special way. Whenever she wanted to ride the Chicago and Northwestern, they stopped the train just for her. A station stop was not good enough. They stopped the train right in front of the little farmhouse on Honey Creek.

What inference can be made based on the details in the excerpt and what the reader has learned so far?


(A: Kate values the recognition from the railroad men most because her father was a railroad man)


(B: Kate insists that the railroad men stop for her at her home rather than at the station.) (C: Railroad men blow the train whistle as they pass Kate's house out of respect for her father.


(D: The railroad offers Kate money and a railroad pass in the hopes that she will become a railroad worker like her father.)