Sugar Changed the World UNIT 3 TEST REVIEW

Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World. Which goal does this passage best address?

the goal of explaining to readers how Indians were taken advantage of

Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World. Which goal does this passage address?

the goal of explaining why the majority of Indians stayed in the colonies

Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World. What is the central claim of this passage?

the joys of sugar we the result of the suffering of ensalved African people

Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World. Which is the authors' purpose for writing this passage?

to inform readers about the cultural and historical significance of honey

Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World. What is the purpose of this text?

to inform readers about the grandfather's role in creating beet sugar

Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World. Which line from the passage best provides evidence to support the claim that sugar was more of "a killer" in Louisiana than in the Caribbean?

"People needed to work faster than the weather..."

Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World. Which evidence best supports the authors' claim and purpose?

"Simple enough; but this trade up and down the Atlantic coast was part of a much larger world system."

Read the two passages from Sugar Changed the World. Which claim do both passages support?

Abolitionists used powerful speeches and presentations to engage people and persuade them to join the abolitionists' cause

Which type of evidence would most likely include a testimonial?

Anecdotal

Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World. The evidence of enslaved people's revolt and fight for freedom is

Anecdotal, because it tells a narrative about enslaved people taking action for basic human rights

Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World. What is the authors' purpose in this passage?

to inform the reader about Bechu's role in proving that the plantation owners' tactics were illegal

Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World. What is the purpose of this passage?

to link the authors' families to sugar

Read the two passages from Sugar Changed the World. How do the authors develop the claim in the two passages?

Both passages support the claim that human rights became more important than property rights in the early 1800s

Read the two passages from Sugar Changed the World. Which statement best explains how the authors develop their claim across the two passages?

Both passages use evidence to show that knowledge of the extreme brutality of the sugar trade changed viewpoints about enslavement

Read the two passages from Sugar Changed the World. Which statement best explains how the authors develop their claim across the two passages?

Both passages use facts and details to support the claim that sugar workers in different places used music to express themselves and relieve the pressures of brutal work

Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World. How do the authors create a tone that develops their claim and purpose?

By using words with negative connotations, such as brutal

Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World. How do the authors support their claim and purpose with their choice of words?

By using words with negative connotations, such as hacked and merciless

Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World. Which sentence best states the authors' claim in this passage?

Economic demand for sugar led to political pressure to end enslavement

Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World. Which details do the authors include to support the claim in this passage? Select two options.

Explanations of how revolutionary ideas spread to Saint Domingue, examples of revolutionary ideas from other countries

Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World. Which excerpt from the passage best states the authors' claim?

"English factories, you might say, we built, run, and paid for by sugar."

Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World. Which excerpt from the passage best states the authors' claim?

"Following the strand of sugar and slavery leads directly into the tumult of the Age of Revolutions."

Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World. Which excerpt from the passage best states the authors' claim?

"It was some of the worst labor."

Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World. Which text evidence best supports the authors' claim that sugar processing was a long and difficult process?

"Over and over again the liquid had to be strained and purified."

Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World. Which text evidence best supports the authors' claim and purpose that enslaved people were more than mercilessly treated workers?

"They were not just labor, not just bodies born to work and die."

Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World. What evidence from the passage supports the inference that sugar was expensive and not available to everyone?

"cooks working for the wealthiest people"

Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World. Which details would best fit in a summary of this passage? Select two options.

"in India . . . it was used as an offering in religious and magical ceremonies", "the first written record of sugar"

Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World. What evidence from the passage best supports the inference that sugar cane had special significance in the ancient era? Select three options.

"sugar cane was now an ingredient in ceremonies involving fire", "Perhaps that transformation itself seemed magical", "sugar cane is called ikshu, which means 'something that people want'"

Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World. What evidence from the passage best supports the inference that making sugar was difficult? Select twooptions.

"the work was governed by extremely tight, rigid discipline"; "careful organization did not solve the second problem with sugar"

Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World. What evidence do the authors include to support the central idea that the sugar plantations' cheap labor source changed from enslaved people to indentured Indians?

Gladstone asked the shipping company to provide workers

Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World. Which inference does this passage support?

Hindu people must have valued the five substances they used as sacrifices

Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World. Which inference does this passage support?

Hindus who lived in ancient times believed that sugar had powerful properties

Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World. How does the heading help the reader understand the central idea of this passage?

It informs readers that the text will focus on a specific school

Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World. How does the heading serve the authors' purpose?

It lets the reader know that the authors are going to describe how honey relates to the story of sugar

Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World. What is the purpose of this passage?

It provides background on how a family from Russia got into the sugar business

Read the passage and study the image from Sugar Changed the World. How does the photograph help the reader understand the text?

It shows how enslaved people were exposed to the outside elements and weather

Read the passage and study the drawing from Sugar Changed the World. How does the image most support the central idea of this text?

It shows the large numbers of workers and tasks required to refine sugar

How does the timeline support the text?Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World.

It supports the central ideas of the passage with specific dates

Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World. Which statement best describes the structure of this passage?

It uses a problem-and-solution structure to show how people got honey without searching for bees

Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World. How does the author's use of the word silence affect the tone?

Silence has a negative connotation, indicating that the owners would not tolerate protests

Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World. What claim do the authors make in this passage?

Sugar plantations were violent systems, but sugar also led some people to reject slavery

Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World. How do the authors use English history to support the claim that many people joined the antislavery movement for moral reasons?

The authors provide a primary- source quotation from a British abolitionist named William Wilberforce

Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World. Which statement best describes the authors' purpose in this passage?

The authors want to persuade readers that Gandhi had a strong influence on the Indian workers

Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World. How do the details in this passage support the author's purpose?

The details about families leaving for a better life inform readers about the status of the author's family

Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World. How do the details in this passage support the authors' purpose?

The details about sugar's dependency on slavery help inform readers about why sugar was inexpensive

Read the timeline from Sugar Changed the World. How do the details in this timeline support the authors' purpose?

The details about the changing laws in France help inform readers that Napoleon wanted to produce sugar cheaply by using enslaved people

Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World. How do the details in the passage support the central idea?

The details describe the important role Muslims played in spreading knowledge throughout the world

Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World. Which text features would be most helpful to support the central idea of the passage? Select two options.

a map showing the spread of Islam through much of the ancient world, a timeline showing the spread of Muhammad's teachings

Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World. How does the evidence most support the central idea that Gandhi recognized indentured servants' brutal treatment?

The evidence details how Gandhi saw a man who had been beaten and knew that the man could not leave

Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World. Which statement is an objective summary of the passage?

The fairs had detailed, specific rules about what merchants could sell and how they could sell it

Read the passage and study the image from Sugar Changed the World. How does the illustration help the reader understand the text?

The illustration depicts the people, equipment, and oxen required to manufacture sugar

Read the passage and study the image from Sugar Changed the World. How does the illustration best help the reader understand the text?

The illustration helps the reader recognize how teams cut and bundled sugar cane

Read the passage and study the image from Sugar Changed the World. How does the image support the text?

The image shows how ancient people collected honey before beekeeping began

What is an author's claim?

a statement that shares a writer's viewpoint on an issue

Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World. How do the historical details in this passage support the authors' claim?

The text includes parts of primary-source interviews with enslaved people to illustrate the difficulty of life on a sugar plantation in Louisiana

Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World. How do the details about Guyana reveal the author's purpose?

They show that the author wants to inform readers by describing the old sugar estates

Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World. How do the authors use historical evidence to support their claim? Select two options.

They use a primary source to show that a song was spreading the idea of equality across the Caribbean, They use a primary source to show that some white people opposed the idea of freeing enslaved people

Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World. How do the authors use historical evidence to support their claim in this passage?

They use primary-source quotations to show that enslaved people in Saint Domingue were willing to destroy property to gain their freedom

Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World. Which statement best describes the claim the authors make in this passage?

Violent uprisings were common, but Gandhi worked to show that resistance could be nonviolent

Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World. Which question does this passage answer most effectively?

Why did Africans leave the plantations to farm elsewhere?

Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World. Which text features would be most helpful to support the central idea of the passage? Select two options.

a map of Alexander the Great's route and the site of the sugar cane discovery, a timeline showing Darius I and Alexander the Great learned if sugar cane

Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World. How do the authors support their claim and purpose with their choice of words?

by repeating the words pure, sweetness, and tastes

Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World. The evidence in this passage could best be described as

logical evidence showing that sugar farming was changing because of laws and low prices

Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World. What evidence do the authors include to support the central idea that Indian workers and formerly enslaved people became rivals?

logical evidence that Indian workers and formerly enslaved people did not get along with one another because wages went down

An introductory section that sets up a lengthy text is a

prologue

On what basis should a reader evaluate evidence for effectiveness? Select three options.

relevance to the central idea, sufficiency to support the purpose, creditability