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Frozen history: The story of the Popsicle

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is dessert?

a)

A sweet food, often eaten at the end of a meal.

b)

A place that is really hot

c)

Something salty that you eat.

d)

Something you eat after breakfast.

2.

Which question is answered in the introduction?

a)

How did Chinese people make sorbet?

b)

Why do spice syrups taste good on ice?

c)

When was Thomas Jefferson the president?

d)

Who went into the mountains for blocks of ice?

3.

Read the section “A Tasty Mistake.” Which sentence from the section explains how Frank loosened the ice pop?

a)

He left a glass outside overnight

b)

The next morning, young Frank found the glass.

c)

He ran the glass under hot water.

d)

Frank knew he’d stumbled across a great idea.

4.

Cherry is still the most popular.

Which word could replace “popular” WITHOUT changing the meaning of the sentence?

a)

expensive

b)

healthy

c)

loved

d)

tasty

5.

He ate them when he traveled to China.

What does the word “traveled” mean?

a)

called

b)

left

c)

talked

d)

visited

6.

What does the word “patent” mean?

a)

Someone in the hospital.

b)

An official document that gives a person or company the right to be the only one that makes or sells a product for a certain number of years.

c)

A letter to a person

d)

An invention

7.

What does the word “invention” mean?

a)

Something new and useful that has been created or thought up.

b)

Something made up

c)

A old computer

d)

Someone that helps you

8.

What does “Great Depression” mean?

a)

A time when everyone had money

b)

A time in the 1950's when we just got out of war

c)

A time in the 1930s when there was very little economic activity in the U.S. and many people were poor.

d)

A time of happiness

9.

Who made the first popsicle

a)

Alex Ohlsen

b)

Frank Epperson

c)

John Adam

d)

Ryan Smith

10.

The first Popsicles sold for just ________ cents each

a)

5

b)

10

c)

15

d)

20