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Sugar Changed the World, Part 3: Word Choice and Multimedia Answers

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growing✔ swallowingthrowing away

A
growing
B
swallowing
C
throwing away
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drinking slowlyeating delicately✔ consuming greedily

A
drinking slowly
B
eating delicately
C
consuming greedily
3

Which words from the passage help to create a dark or grim tone?

A
sent, burn, bent
B
palms, eyes, rawhide
C
morning, weeds, tough
D
callused, scorching, prowls
4

What is the primary purpose of this passage?

A
to create sympathy for enslaved workers
B
to demonstrate a typical day of labor on a plantation
C
to compare the living conditions of plantation owners and enslaved workers
D
to show ways housing on plantations could have been improved
5

Which words from the passage best support the author’s purpose?

A
tired, toils, poor
B
repose, places, air
C
huts, covered, dry
D
sheds, places, damp
6

What is the most important point that the authors make in this paragraph?

A
Most enslaved people worked under fair to good conditions.
B
Enslaved workers had decent lives if they had fair overseers.
C
Plantations often were harsh because of the cruelty of those in charge.
D
Men with absolute power can lose the sense of what it means to be good.
7

How does the authors’ word choice contribute to the claim in this passage?

A
The denotations of words help explain how plantations ran smoothly.
B
The repetition of several key words creates a positive view of slaveholders.
C
The connotations of several words create a neutral view of working conditions.
D
The repetition and connotations of words emphasizes that slaveholders were merciless.
8

What are the effects of the words chosen by the authors of Sugar Changed the World? Check all that apply.

A
They underscore the importance of the slave trade in the Americas.
B
They create sympathy for the living conditions of enslaved Africans.
C
They minimize the impact that the sugar trade had on the African people.
D
They compare the lives of enslaved people with the lives of free people.
E
They provide a metaphor for the bitterness and sweetness of the sugar trade.
9

Which words from the passage help to create a dark or grim tone?

A
sent, burn, bent
B
palms, eyes, rawhide
C
morning, weeds, tough
D
callused, scorching, prowls
10

What is the primary purpose of this passage?

A
to create sympathy for enslaved workers
B
to demonstrate a typical day of labor on a plantation
C
to compare the living conditions of plantation owners and enslaved workers
D
to show ways housing on plantations could have been improved
11

Which words from the passage best support the author’s purpose?

A
tired, toils, poor
B
repose, places, air
C
huts, covered, dry
D
sheds, places, damp
12

What is the most important point that the authors make in this paragraph?

A
Most enslaved people worked under fair to good conditions.
B
Enslaved workers had decent lives if they had fair overseers.
C
Plantations often were harsh because of the cruelty of those in charge.
D
Men with absolute power can lose the sense of what it means to be good.
13

What are the effects of the words chosen by the authors of Sugar Changed the World? Check all that apply.

A
They underscore the importance of the slave trade in the Americas.
B
They create sympathy for the living conditions of enslaved Africans.
C
They minimize the impact that the sugar trade had on the African people.
D
They compare the lives of enslaved people with the lives of free people.
E
They provide a metaphor for the bitterness and sweetness of the sugar trade.

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