How Sugar Changed Three Continents (500 BC, Caribbean) — Questions and answers
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What did people in India learn to do with sugarcane?
Choices
- Draw maps with it.
- Use it as a building material.
- Crush the cane and boil the juice to make sugar crystals. ✓
- Only chew its stalks for sweetness.
Answer: Crush the cane and boil the juice to make sugar crystals.
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What did the Persians believe sugar was?
Choices
- A common drink.
- A precious medicine and a delightful spice. ✓
- Something only for farmers.
- A type of map.
Answer: A precious medicine and a delightful spice.
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Why couldn't everyone have sugar when it was in the Mediterranean?
Choices
- It was too sour.
- It was a common food item.
- It was a rare and expensive luxury only for the wealthy. ✓
- No one liked it very much.
Answer: It was a rare and expensive luxury only for the wealthy.
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What terrible thing happened when sugar was brought to the Americas?
Choices
- It lost its sweetness.
- Enslaved people were forced to work in terrible conditions on plantations. ✓
- It became less popular.
- The sugar plants stopped growing.
Answer: Enslaved people were forced to work in terrible conditions on plantations.
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How does Nikolai describe sugar's journey?
Choices
- Only sweet.
- Only bitter.
- Both sweet and bitter. ✓
- Fast and easy.
Answer: Both sweet and bitter.
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What can the history of sugar teach us, according to Kofi?
Choices
- That sweet things are always simple and easy.
- That sugar is good in everything we eat.
- That even the sweetest things can have a complex and sometimes painful past, but knowledge of it can give us strength. ✓
- That maps are the most important part of history.
Answer: That even the sweetest things can have a complex and sometimes painful past, but knowledge of it can give us strength.
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