Cocoa Ice Comprehension
  • 1. At the museum, we toured an old-fashioned _________ that was tied to the dock.
A) schooner
B) bargain
C) machete
D) trading
  • 2. The _________ship brought silk from China to sell in France.
A) pulp
B) trading
C) machete
D) harvest
  • 3. In the fall, we harvest apples. What does the word harvest most likely mean?
A) chop
B) gather
C) eat
D) peel
  • 4. Billy had to use a ___________ to cut the tall grass.
A) machete
B) bargain
C) schooner
D) support
  • 5. My Aunt says the best part of the orange is its ____________.
A) pulp
B) bargain
C) trading
D) harvest
  • 6. Whenever there is a sale, mom tries to find the best ____________.
A) pulp
B) bargain
C) harvest
D) support
  • 7. The farmer staked the plants, as the tomatoes were heavy and the vines could not ______________ them
A) trading
B) machete
C) support
D) bargain
  • 8. What two locations are talked about in the story?
A) California and Maine
B) Santo Domingo and Maine
C) Santa Maria and Maine
D) Santo Domingo and Maryland
  • 9. What happens to the cocoa beans before they dry in the sun?
A) They are put in a bowl of coconut milk.
B) They are covered with turtle grass.
C) They are put between banana leaves with pulp.
D) They are split open with a machete.
  • 10. 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.
  • 11. In this story conchs are an "animal" you can eat. The writer wants to replace the word animal to make her meaning clearer. Which word would make her word choice better?
A) reptile
B) bird
C) shellfish
D) mammal
  • 12. The island people trade for what they need by using all the following except_______.
A) bananas
B) coconuts
C) cocoa beans
D) ice
  • 13. It is important to be the first person to see a schooner come into the bay. Choose a detail that best supports this conclusion.
A) Captains get angry if many people want to trade.
B) Other families have come and Papa must wait his turn to trade to trade with the captain.
C) when the ship gets crowded with people, there is a lot of pushing and shoving.
D) Captains trade only with the first few people to arrive.
  • 14. What must Jacob have traded to get the seashell on the mantel shelf?
A) ice
B) the balsam bag
C) hay
D) hay pictures of Maine
  • 15. Papa and Uncle Jacob worry when it snows on the river because _____.
A) then it is too cold to cut ice
B) horses can't walk on snow
C) then they can't walk on the river
D) snow keeps the river from freezing
  • 16. The first step in harvesting the ice is _______.
A) cutting through the ice to the water
B) floating ice on the water.
C) making grooves in the ice
D) lifting blocks of ice
  • 17. Sailors cover the ice on schooners with sawdust and hay to ______.
A) make it easier to load the ice
B) keep the ice clean
C) keep the ice from moving
D) keep the ice from melting
  • 18. How are the girl in Santo Domingo and the girl in Maine alike?
A) Both drink coconut milk
B) Both swim in a river
C) Both like chocolate.
D) Both climb trees.
  • 19. A student is writing a report on the state of Maine. Which source would most likely have information for the report?
A) Main Streets in the USA
B) Fun Activities with ICE!
C) All About Horse Manes
D) All About the 50 States
  • 20. What sentence best describes the lesson of the passage
A) People need to trade for things that they do not have the resources for in their area.
B) Ice is better chocolate
C) Chocolate is better than ice
D) The girls should be friends one day
Students who took this test also took :

Created with That Quiz — where a math practice test is always one click away.