WorksheetsSugar Quiz 2
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 50mins
Which statement best describes the purpose of Marc Aronson and Maria Budhos in writing this text?
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 and 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.
What quotation from the prologue best supports the statement that the authors seek to convey the positive and negative impacts of the rise of sugar production and trade around 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."
Select two effects of the increase of the sugar trade during 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.
How is this section of the text organized?
The authors begin with a claim, provide evidence to support the claim, and then expand the claim to include not just the wealthy but the poor as well.
The authors begin with a question then provide an answer to the question, including evidence and reasoning.
The authors begin with a claim, then present reasoning and evidence, and conclude by presenting and responding to a conflicting viewpoint.
The authors begin with a summary statement and then provide chronological details in support of this statement.
How does the excerpt contribute to the reader's understanding of an enslaved African person's experience on a plantation?
The reader understands how all enslaved people lived a similarly difficult and brutal experience.
The reader understands how especially horrific and dangerous conditions were for people enslaved on sugar plantations.
The reader understands the similarities of experiences of people enslaved on sugar plantations and slaves who worked on other types of plantations.
The reader understands why the Atlantic slave trade was so profitable.
What is the meaning of lynchpin as it is used in the excerpt?
relevant
unimportant
essential
transition
a broad, heavy knife
cauldron
pest
machete
granule
a large metal pot
granule
cauldron
vermin
machete
a small particle
sooty
memoir
vermin
granule
personal account of someone's life
memoir
vermin
billowed
granule
pest
granule
vermin
machete
lavishly
soared upwards
sooty
lavishly
billowed
enticing
manhood, womanhood, personhood
granule
memoir
humanity
enticing
extravagantly
sooty
enticing
lavishly
billowed
tempting
sooty
enticing
lavishly
cauldron
black
enticing
sooty
granule
cauldron
