Cocoa Ice Comprehension
  • 1. What two locations are talked about in the story?
A) Santo Domingo and Maine
B) Santa Maria and Maine
C) Santo Domingo and Maryland
D) California and Maine
  • 2. What happens to the cocoa beans before they dry in the sun?
A) They are covered with turtle grass.
B) They are put between banana leaves with pulp.
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) Fresh beans give you a toothache.
C) Fresh beans smell bad.
D) The pulp is poisonous.
  • 4. In this story, Mama steams conchs and picks out the meat. Conchs are a kind of _______.
A) pan
B) rock
C) bird
D) shellfish
  • 5. The island people trade for what they need by using all the following except_______.
A) cocoa beans
B) coconuts
C) ice
D) bananas
  • 6. Why is it important to be the first person to see a schooner come into the bay?
A) Captains trade only with the first few people to arrive.
B) Captains get angry if many people want to trade.
C) when the ship gets crowded with people, there is a lot of pushing and shoving.
D) The first people to reach a ship have a chance of trading for what they want.
  • 7. What must Jacob have traded to get the seashell on the mantel shelf?
A) hay
B) hay pictures of Maine
C) the balsam bag
D) ice
  • 8. 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
  • 9. The first step in harvesting the ice is _______.
A) lifting blocks of ice
B) making grooves in the ice
C) cutting through the ice to the water
D) floating ice on the water.
  • 10. Sailors cover the ice on schooners with sawdust and hay to ______.
A) make it easier to load the ice
B) keep the ice from melting
C) keep the ice from moving
D) keep the ice clean
  • 11. How are the girl in Santo Domingo and the girl in Maine alike?
A) Both swim in a river
B) Both drink coconut milk
C) Both like chocolate.
D) Both climb trees.
  • 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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