Sugar Changed the World Prologue

What is one reason Marc Aronson wanted to write a book about sugar?

• His ancestors came from India to Guyana to become sugar farmers.

• His grandmother was a Russian serf who invented a way to make sugar out of beets.

• His uncle's wife was descended from a Russian serf who invented a way to make raw beet sugar more attractive.

• His grandfather was one of the leaders of the Jewish community in Tel Aviv.

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What is one reason Marina Budhos wanted to write a book about sugar?

• Her great-grandparents became fairly wealthy as a result of their involvement in the sugar industry.

• She really likes the taste of sugar in her tea.

• Her father won a scholarship to Howard University to study sugar.

• She was proud of her family's big white house in Letter Kenny, in Guyana.

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Before slavery was abolished by the Emancipation Proclamation, many African men and women spent their lives working in cane fields.

• encouraged

• made more strict by increasing laws

• done away with

• forgotten

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Serfs were often required to work the land and could be bought and sold at their master's will.

• slave quarters

• slaves

• Russian emperor

• something of value given at marriage

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A woman's father would often offer a ________ to a man before marriage.

• serf

• bottom-house

• dowry

• piece of sugar cane

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In her senility, my grandmother stared at the house with longing, trying to remember the days when it felt more like a prison.

• deteriorating old age

• illness

• sleep-like state

• craziness

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My great-grandfather had been chosen to be a sirdar, in charge of the field hands.

• slave

• head serf

• worker

• teacher

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Before slavery was abolished by the Emancipation Proclamation, many African men and women spent their lives working in cane fields.

• encouraged slavery

• made more strict by increasing laws

• declared that all slaves be free

• forgotten

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Avram was __________ from his parents' home until his father was on his deathbed and forgave him.

• noble

• senility

• sirdar

• exiled

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A ___________ is a Jewish leader.

• christian

• rabbi

• noble

• serf

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