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Evidence-Based Selected-Response Technology-EnhancedThis question has two parts. Answer , and then answer .What motivates Caleb to want to become a Pony Express rider?A. a desire to be independent from his familyB. a need for adventure in his lifeC. a desire to make a great deal of moneyD. a need to travel to other placesWhich sentence from the story BEST supports the answer in ?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.