Unit 6C Exam Study Guide

Why did Lord Rothschild request an image of the chocolate bomb?

• He wanted to be sure he didn't buy that type of chocolate.

• He was craving chocolate.

• He wanted to be able to identify what the chocolate bomb looked like.

Answer explanation

Lord Rothschild requests a drawing of the exploding chocolate bar because he has “received information that the enemy are” making a chocolate bomb. He hopes that the drawing will allow the intelligence community to visualize and better understand this threat.

Read this sentence from Lord Rothschild’s letter:

“When the piece of chocolate is pulled sharply, the canvas is also pulled and this initiates the mechanism.”

Which of the following would BEST replace the word, "initiates"?

• tugs on

• communicates with

• begins

• D. introduces

Answer explanation

The word “initiates” means “begins.” In this context, pulling on the canvas initiates the mechanism of the bomb, or begins the process that results in an explosion.

What is shown in the image of the chocolate bomb?

• “Slabs of chocolate which are made of steel with a very thin covering of real chocolate.”

• . “Inside there is high explosive and some form of delay mechanism.”

• “A piece of canvas is revealed stuck into the middle of the piece which has been broken off and sticking into the middle of the remainder of the slab."

• “This initiates the mechanism.”

• . “The paper half taken off revealing one end and another with the piece broken off showing the canvas."

Answer explanation

The illustration shows a slab of chocolate with a thin steel interior, a piece of chocolate broken off to reveal the canvas stuck into the steel, and half the paper torn off to better reveal the bar. The illustration does not show the actual explosive or the delay mechanism that initiates it.

What information from the letter is NOT included in this caption? Select ONE.

“The bomb is made of steel with a thin covering of real chocolate. When the piece of chocolate at the end is broken off the canvas shown is pulled, and after a delay of seven seconds the bomb explodes."

• The bomb is made of chocolate-covered steel.

• The wrapper says PETERS brand chocolate

• Breaking off a piece of chocolate pulls the canvas

• The bomb explodes after a delay of seven seconds.

Which sentence explains why Sametta does not go to school?

• "Imagine this: 12-year old Sametta lives in Cote d’Ivoire, West Africa.”

• “She wakes up at 4:00 a.m., eats millet porridge, then walks two miles to her family’s cocoa bean field.”

• “For the next 12 hours she picks cocoa pods and breaks them open so she can scoop out the 30–50 seeds, or ‘beans,’ inside.”

• “About 400 beans are needed to make one pound of chocolate.”

• . “Her family needs her to work in order for them to survive.”

What is the meaning of the word “means” as it is used in this sentence?

"

For generations they have depended on growing and selling cocoa beans as their main means of survival.”

• Method

• Definition

• Purpose

• Demonstration

Which two inferences are true about big chocolate companies?

• Big chocolate companies feel bad about the harsh conditions faced by their child laborers.

• Paying workers low wages is one way big chocolate companies can keep profits high

• Big chocolate companies have the power to decide how much they will pay for cocoa beans.

• Big chocolate companies did not make enough profits in the past, so they feel pressure to make higher profits now.

• Big chocolate companies plan to start paying laborers more as soon as they have raised enough cash.

Which sentence shows that a lack of money among farming families is the biggest reason for child labor?

• "In 2001 the U.S. government created a document, the Harkin-Engel Protocol, that called the chocolate companies to help eliminate child slavery and child labor by July 2005.”

• “However, chocolate companies have not abided by this protocol and the deadline has been extended to July 2008.”

• “Even if the companies do convince countries to stop selling their children, and they teach farmers that their children need to go to school, the cocoa farmers would still make barely enough money to survive.”

What does "Fair Trade Certified" mean?

• “Companies that buy cocoa beans from these farmers sign a document promising to pay the farmers a fair trade price which is enough for them to buy food and clothing for their families and send their children to school.”

• “An emerging group of farms in Africa and South America are called Fair Trade Certified.”

• “Also, all organic chocolate made with cocoa grown on farms without child laborers is labeled fair trade.”

Read this sentence from paragraph 7:

"Before 1999, the government in the Ivory Coast set a minimum price for cocoa, but then the cocoa industry was privatized and the minimum price disappeared. What does the author mean by the underlined word? Drag the set of words that best completes the sentence. "

The word “minimum” means that the price ______

• needs to be a certain amount or higher.

• needs to be a certain amount or lower.

• needs to be set so it never changes.