Think: question 1 refer to one or more details from the text to support your understanding of why soldiers are escorting beals and other students-both from ideas that are directly stated and ideas that you have inferred from clues in the text.

Before the soldiers arrive, Beals and the other students were constntly attacked by mobs on theirways to obtain education.

Seeing the griefance that they experienced, the soldeirs decided to escored them on their way to class and protect them from both physical and psychological harassment from the mobs.