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