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Cocoa Ice Comprehension
Contributed by: Moore
  • 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 split open with a machete.
B) They are covered with turtle grass.
C) They are put between banana leaves with pulp.
D) They are put in a bowl of coconut milk.
  • 3. Why is it necessary to dry the cocoa beans in the sun?
A) Fresh beans give you a toothache.
B) The pulp is poisonous.
C) Fresh beans smell bad.
D) Drying cocoa beans takes out the bitterness.
  • 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) ice
B) bananas
C) cocoa beans
D) coconuts
  • 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) ice
B) hay pictures of Maine
C) the balsam bag
D) hay
  • 8. Papa and Uncle Jacob worry when it snows on the river because _____.
A) snow keeps the river from freezing
B) horses can't walk on snow
C) then they can't walk on the river
D) then it is too cold to cut ice
  • 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) make it easier to load the ice
B) keep the ice clean
C) keep the ice from melting
D) keep the ice from moving
  • 11. How are the girl in Santo Domingo and the girl in Maine alike?
A) Both swim in a river
B) Both like chocolate.
C) Both climb trees.
D) Both drink coconut milk
  • 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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