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- 1. Multiple Choice
The picture best supports which idea from the selection?
The Aztecs believed cocoa was a gift from the gods.
Hernan Cortes owned a cocoa farm
Swiss citizens eat 22 pounds of chocolate each year
Chocolate is made from the beans of a plant
- 2. Multiple Choice
Look at the diagram....
CAUSE:
The Mayas and Aztecs
had no sugar.
EFFECT:
____________________
____________________
Which of the following best completes the diagram?
They did not want to trade with Hernan Cortes
They were no able to enjoy their chocolate sauces
Their chocolate drinks tasted better
Recipes were invented that boiled chocolate to remove its oil
- 3. Multiple Choice
Which sentence from the selection suggests that cocoa beans were valuable to the Mayas and Aztecs?
They even used the cocoa beans as a sort of money.
Chocolate is made from the beans of the cocoa bush.
They added corn and even chili peppers to give their drinks a spicy flavor.
It was at this time that cocoa began to be called chocolate.
- 4. Multiple Choice
In paragraph 6, what does the word flavorful mean?
a person that studies flavors
having much flavor
a belief about flavor
without flavor
- 5. Multiple Choice
What is the section titled "World of Different Flavors" mostly about?
Chocolate has a history that goes back thousands of years.
Corn and chili peppers can be added to chocolate.
Cocoa butter can be used to make delicious treats.
Chocolate is prepared in different ways by different people.
- 6. Multiple Choice
Why do more people eat chocolate today than they did hundreds of years ago?
More people know about it and it is more affordable
There are more kings and queens now than there used to be.
Chocolate was brought to Earth by an Aztec god
No one makes chocolate that is spicy or bitter.
- 7. Multiple Choice
Which word is a synonym of rapidly in paragraph 3?
slowly
sneakily
cautiously
quickly
- 8. Multiple Choice
How much chocolate will be sold this year?
Twenty-two pounds per person
More than 80 billion dollars
not as much as last year
more than four thousand pounds
- 9. Multiple Choice
Which sentence best supports the idea that the king and queen of Spain loved chocolate?
He planted cocoa bean bushes and made a lot of his own money.
It is not just food for kings, queens, and wealthy ladies and gentlemen.
They kept the recipe a secret for over one hundred years.
Hundreds of years ago, the Mayas and Aztecs in Latin America were the first to value cocoa.
- 10. Multiple Choice
What can the reader conclude about Hernan Cortes?
He taught the Aztecs how to grow cocoa bushes.
He was the best friend of the king of Spain.
The Aztecs loved him as much as they loved cocoa beans
He understood how to use valuable cocoa beans to become wealthy.
- 11. Multiple Choice
THE QUESTIONS YOU ARE ABOUT TO ANSWER ARE NOT ON YOUR SHEET!!!!! TAKE YOUR TIME, FIND YOUR ANSWERS IN THE PASSAGE!!!!
The photograph next to paragraph 1 helps the reader understand --
Why chocolate is so popular
how much chocolate costs
where you can find chocolate
what cocoa beans look like
- 12. Multiple Choice
The word flavorful in paragraph 6 tells the reader that the chocolate is
a sweet treat
bitter
chocolate milk
oil has been removed
- 13. Multiple Choice
Chocolate earned its name mainly ---
after Cortes started his own cocoa farm
Spanish chocolate makers added sugar to their chocolate.
because Europeans ate a lot of chocolate.
when Aztecs found it.
- 14. Multiple Choice
What can the reader tell about chocolate from the way the Spanish chocolate makers made it?
Their chocolate was boiled.
Their chocolate was sweeter than the Mayas and Aztecs.
Their chocolate was not given to the kings and queens.
Their chocolate was not very good.
- 15. Multiple Choice
One result of boiling chocolate is...
it removes the oil called cocoa butter
it creates chocolate milk
It creates spicy chocolate
it removes the spices.
- 16. Multiple Choice
The author wrote this article mainly to....
tell us all about the Aztecs and the Mayans.
give us humorous stories about the Europeans and their habits of eating chocolate.
inform the reader of the way chocolate was first created and how we use it today.
to persuade us to eat chocolate.
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