Sugar

What did people use to sweeten things before sugar?

• sugarcane

• syrup

• honey

• Sweet-n-Low

What did the text refer the first several thousand years to in terms of sweetener?

• The Bronze Age

• The Age of Honey

• The Age of Sugar

• The Age of Agave

How is sugar different than honey?

• Sugar was local.

• Sugar on comes in one form.

• Honey tastes stronger and had to be invented.

• Sugar tastes stronger and had to be invented.

What was one negative thing that increased as sugar spread?

• The spread of insects.

• Slavery

• The decline of the bee population

• none of the above

What was the "sweet reed" that Darius I discovered?

• Pixie Sticks

• A bee hive

• Sugarcane

• Honey

Complete the following analogy- Flowers of Algernon is to literary as Sugar Changed the World is to ___________.

• literary

• science fiction

• fiction

• informational

Complete the following analogy- Darius I is to sugar as __________ is to America.

• Washington D.C.

• Christopher Columbus

• Marco Polo

• Shakespeare

The reason that sugar plantation owners turned to India for labor was because _________.

• Slavey was abolished

• Indian workers were cheaper than African workers

• Indian workers worked harder than African workers.

• They respected Indians more than Africans.

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.

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.