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Cocoa Ice Comprehension
Contribució de: Moore
  • 1. What two locations are talked about in the story?
A) Santo Domingo and Maine
B) Santa Maria and Maine
C) California and Maine
D) Santo Domingo and Maryland
  • 2. What happens to the cocoa beans before they dry in the sun?
A) They are split open with a machete.
B) They are put between banana leaves with pulp.
C) They are put in a bowl of coconut milk.
D) They are covered with turtle grass.
  • 3. Why is it necessary to dry the cocoa beans in the sun?
A) Fresh beans smell bad.
B) Drying cocoa beans takes out the bitterness.
C) Fresh beans give you a toothache.
D) The pulp is poisonous.
  • 4. In this story, Mama steams conchs and picks out the meat. Conchs are a kind of _______.
A) pan
B) bird
C) shellfish
D) rock
  • 5. The island people trade for what they need by using all the following except_______.
A) cocoa beans
B) coconuts
C) bananas
D) ice
  • 6. Why is it important to be the first person to see a schooner come into the bay?
A) when the ship gets crowded with people, there is a lot of pushing and shoving.
B) Captains get angry if many people want to trade.
C) The first people to reach a ship have a chance of trading for what they want.
D) Captains trade only with the first few people to arrive.
  • 7. What must Jacob have traded to get the seashell on the mantel shelf?
A) hay pictures of Maine
B) hay
C) ice
D) the balsam bag
  • 8. Papa and Uncle Jacob worry when it snows on the river because _____.
A) horses can't walk on snow
B) snow keeps the river from freezing
C) then it is too cold to cut ice
D) then they can't walk on the river
  • 9. The first step in harvesting the ice is _______.
A) lifting blocks of ice
B) floating ice on the water.
C) making grooves in the ice
D) cutting through the ice to the water
  • 10. Sailors cover the ice on schooners with sawdust and hay to ______.
A) keep the ice from melting
B) keep the ice from moving
C) keep the ice clean
D) make it easier to load the ice
  • 11. How are the girl in Santo Domingo and the girl in Maine alike?
A) Both like chocolate.
B) Both drink coconut milk
C) Both climb trees.
D) Both swim in a river
  • 12. What are three amazing things about Maine, according to the girl from Santo Domingo?
  • 13. What are three amazing things about Santo Domingo, according to the girl from Maine?
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