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Cocoa Ice Comprehension
  • 1. At the museum, we toured an old-fashioned _________ that was tied to the dock.
A) schooner
B) trading
C) machete
D) bargain
  • 2. The _________ship brought silk from China to sell in France.
A) harvest
B) pulp
C) machete
D) trading
  • 3. In the fall, we ___________ apples
A) schooner
B) support
C) trading
D) harvest
  • 4. Billy had to use a ___________ to cut the tall grass.
A) bargain
B) schooner
C) machete
D) support
  • 5. My Aunt says the best part of the orange is its ____________.
A) harvest
B) pulp
C) bargain
D) trading
  • 6. Whenever there is a sale, mom tries to find the best ____________.
A) bargain
B) harvest
C) support
D) pulp
  • 7. The farmer staked the plants, as the tomatoes were heavy and the vines could not ______________ them
A) bargain
B) machete
C) support
D) trading
  • 8. What two locations are talked about in the story?
A) Santo Domingo and Maine
B) Santo Domingo and Maryland
C) Santa Maria and Maine
D) California and Maine
  • 9. What happens to the cocoa beans before they dry in the sun?
A) They are covered with turtle grass.
B) They are split open with a machete.
C) They are put in a bowl of coconut milk.
D) They are put between banana leaves with pulp.
  • 10. Why is it necessary to dry the cocoa beans in the sun?
A) The pulp is poisonous.
B) Drying cocoa beans takes out the bitterness.
C) Fresh beans smell bad.
D) Fresh beans give you a toothache.
  • 11. In this story, Mama steams conchs and picks out the meat. Conchs are a kind of _______.
A) bird
B) pan
C) shellfish
D) rock
  • 12. The island people trade for what they need by using all the following except_______.
A) bananas
B) cocoa beans
C) ice
D) coconuts
  • 13. Why is it important to be the first person to see a schooner come into the bay?
A) Captains get angry if many people want to trade.
B) when the ship gets crowded with people, there is a lot of pushing and shoving.
C) Captains trade only with the first few people to arrive.
D) The first people to reach a ship have a chance of trading for what they want.
  • 14. What must Jacob have traded to get the seashell on the mantel shelf?
A) the balsam bag
B) hay pictures of Maine
C) hay
D) ice
  • 15. Papa and Uncle Jacob worry when it snows on the river because _____.
A) then it is too cold to cut ice
B) snow keeps the river from freezing
C) horses can't walk on snow
D) then they can't walk on the river
  • 16. The first step in harvesting the ice is _______.
A) lifting blocks of ice
B) making grooves in the ice
C) floating ice on the water.
D) cutting through the ice to the water
  • 17. Sailors cover the ice on schooners with sawdust and hay to ______.
A) keep the ice clean
B) make it easier to load the ice
C) keep the ice from melting
D) keep the ice from moving
  • 18. How are the girl in Santo Domingo and the girl in Maine alike?
A) Both climb trees.
B) Both drink coconut milk
C) Both swim in a river
D) Both like chocolate.
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