Section2 and 3 test

Which statement best describes the purpose of Marc Aronson and Maria Budhos in writing Sugar Changed the World?

• The authors seek to convey the widespread positive and negative impacts of the rise of sugar production and trade around the world.

• The authors seek to convey the widespread negative impacts of the rise of sugar production and trade around the world.

• The authors seek to convey the widespread positive impacts of the rise of sugar production and trade around the world. 

• The authors seek to convey the limited positive and negative impacts of the rise of sugar production and trade around the world.  

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What quotation from the prologue best supports the purpose of Marc Aronson and Maria Budhos in writing Sugar Changed the World?

• "In fact, while sugar was the direct cause of the expansion of slavery, the global connections that sugar brought about also fostered the most powerful ideas of human freedom." 

• "Sugar created a hunger, a need, which swept from one corner of the world to another, brining the most terrible misery and destruction."

•  “A perfect taste made possible by the most brutal labor: That is the history of sugar.”

• "Information about sugar spread as human knowledge expanded, as great civilizations and cultures exchanged ideas." 

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1. a broad, heavy knife used as an implement or weapon, originating in Central America and the Caribbean.

• machete

• dagger

• bolo

• sword

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In Part Two of Sugar Changed the World, which two effects were the increase of the sugar trade in the Age of Sugar.

• Nearly one million Africans were enslaved and taken to sugar islands, Brazil, and other sugar producing regions.

• The Champagne fairs began and encouraged trade throughout Europe. 

• The amount of tea consumed in both North America and England remained stable, even as more workers begin to work in factories.

• The spherical trade of enslaved people, sugar, and manufactured goods drove the world economy from the 1600s through the 1800s.

• Sugar was used at Jundi Shapur as medicine, and professors from around the world gathered to study its healing properties.

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"Sugar was the product of the slave and the addiction of the poor factory worker--the meeting place of the barbarism of the overseers...and the rigid new economy. And yet, for that very reason, sugar also became the lynchpin of the struggle for freedom."

What is the meaning of lynchpin as it is used in the excerpt?

• something that was relevant

• something that was unimportant

• something that was essential

• something that was used in a transition

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53,100 people are kidnapped from Africa, forced into slavery, and transported to the British “sugar islands” to work on sugar plantations.

• 1768

• 2000

• 1687

• 1876

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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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a small compact particle of a substance.

• grain

• granule

• crumb

• morsel

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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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What were "The Champagne Fairs"?

• An annual cycle of trading fairs in Italy, where merchants first introduced sugar to the European countries.

• An annual cycle of trading fairs in Germany, where merchants first introduced sugar to the European countries.

• An annual cycle of trading fairs in Wakanda, where merchants first introduced sugar to the European countries.

• An annual cycle of trading fairs in France, where merchants first introduced sugar to the European countries.

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