Section2 and 3 test

Section2 and 3 test

8th Grade

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Section2 and 3 test

Section2 and 3 test

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English

8th Grade

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CCSS
RI.8.4, RI.11-12.9, RI.7.5

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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.  

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.9

CCSS.RI.8.6

CCSS.RI.8.9

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.6

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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." 

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.K.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

machete

dagger

bolo

sword

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

4.

MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

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.

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

"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

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

Tags

CCSS.6.NS.B.3

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

15 mins • 1 pt

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.

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.6

CCSS.RI.8.9

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.6

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