The Story of Chocolate

Read these sentences from paragraph 1 of the article.

A thousand years ago, chocolate was a big secret. Only a few people drank it and nobody ate it.

What is the main reason that the author begins with these sentences?

• to explain that chocolate comes from the jungle

• to explain how chocolate was discovered

• to show that chocolate used to be rare

• to show how old chocolate is

What is the main reason the author includes the story about monkeys at the beginning of the article?

• to show that animals like chocolate

• to describe the trees where the cacao pods came from

• to explain why the farmers first tasted the cacao pods

• to show how the beans inside cacao pods are eaten

Read the sentence from paragraph 8 of the article.

But then, some villagers noticed a delicious smell, drifting up from a pile of rotting beans.

Why did the author include the phrases "delicious smell" and "rotting beans" in the same sentence?

• to show an unexpected result

• to show what people had planned

• to describe a process as it happens

• to describe a solution to a problem

How did the invention of the steam engine mostly affect the making of chocolate?

• It improved the taste of the cacao bean.

• It added different ingredients to chocolate.

• It changed the way cacao trees were grown.

• It provided an easier way to make chocolate.

Which sentence from the article best shows how the Mayans felt about chocolate?

• "But then, some villagers noticed a delicious smell, drifting up from a pile of rotting beans." (paragraph 8)

• "They let the beans rot for a few days under banana leaves...then put them out to dry in the hot sun." (paragraph 10)

• "To avoid hiking into the jungle for pods, the farmers planted cacao trees in their own fields." (paragraph 12)

• "When the Mayans first caught a whiff of rotting cacao beans, they knew they had found something exciting." (paragraph 23)

How does the author organize this article?

• by showing the effects of chocolate on people around the world

• by comparing and contrasting different ways of eating chocolate

• by describing events connected to chocolate in the order they happened

• by presenting the problem with making chocolate and then giving the solution