Sugar Changed the World, Part 2: Central Ideas — Unit test
Question 28 • FL-1001340-English 2 Sem 1 - Flex
Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World.The diamond and the house: two family treasures, two parts of the story of sugar. We realized that our two family stories—Marina's great-grandparents, brought to Guyana to replace slaves, and Marc's aunt's grandfather, helping to refine an alternative to that same sugar—were just the beginning of a much larger story about a remarkable substance. It is a story of the movement of millions of people, of fortunes made and lost, of brutality and delight—a
Answer
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to explain who Marina and Marc are
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to link the authors’ families to sugar
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to explore the history of Guyana
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to show what sugar is used for
Explanation
The passage connects two family stories to the larger story of sugar: Marina’s great-grandparents were brought to Guyana to work in place of enslaved people, and Marc’s relative helped refine a sugar alternative. The details show how both families are linked to sugar and introduce the book’s broader subject. So the best choice is “to link the authors’ families to sugar.”
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