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WorksheetsCocoa Ice
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 2hrs 35mins
Vocabulary: At the marine museum, we toured an old-fashioned ______ that was tied to the dock.
machete
trading
schooner
Vocabulary: The _______ ship brought silk from China to sell in France.
pulp
harvest
machete
trading
Vocabulary: In the autumn we _____ the apples.
harvest
schooner
trading
support
Christina had to use a ______ to cut the tall grass.
support
machete
bargain
schooner
Vocabulary: My aunt says the best part of the orange is the ______.
harvest
bargain
trading
pulp
Vocabulary: Whenever there is a sale, Mom tries to find a good ______.
bargain
harvest
support
pulp
Vocabulary: The farmer staked the plants, as the tomatoes were heavy and the vines could not _____ them.
support
bargain
trading
schooner
What two locations are talked about in the story?
Santa Maria and Maine
Santo Domingo and Maryland
Cailfornia and Maine
Santo Domingo and Maine
What happens to the cocoa beans before they dry in the sun?
Choose TWO answers
They are split open with a machete
They are put between banana leaves with pulp
They are covered with turtle grass
They are put into bowls with coconut milk.
Why is it necessary to dry the cocoa beans in the sun?
Fresh beans smell bad.
The pulp is poisionous.
Drying cocoa beans takes out the bitterness.
Fresh beans give you a toothache.
In this story, Mama steams conchs and picks out the meat. Conchs are a kind of ______.
bird
shellfish
pan
rock
The island people trade for what they need by using all of the following EXCEPT ______.
ice
cocoa beans
coconut
bananas
Why is it important to be the first person to see a schooner come into the bay?
The first people to reach the ship have a better chance of trading for what they want.
Captains trade only with the first few people to arrive.
When the ships get crowded, there is a lot of pushing and shoving.
Captains get angry if to many people want to trade.
What must Jacob have traded to get the seashell on the mantle shelf?
hay
ice
the balsam bag
pictures of Maine
Papa and Uncle Jacob worry when it snows on the river because ______.
then they can't walk on the river
then it is too cold to cut ice
Snow keeps the river from freezing
horses can't walk on snow
The first step of cutting ice is ______.
lifting blocks of ice
cutting through the ice into the water
floating ice on the water
making grooves in the ice
Sailors cover the ice on schooners with sawdust and hay to _______.
keep the ice from moving
keep the ice from melting
keep the ice clean
make it easier to load
How are the girl in Santo Doming and the girl in Maine alike?
Both like chocolate
Both climb trees.
Both drink coconut milk.
Both swim in a river.
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