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Cocoa Ice
Cocoa Ice
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A reading and vocabulary comprehension assessment
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1
Why is it necessary to dry the cocoa beans in the sun?
Fresh beans smell bad.
The pulp is poisonous.
Drying cocoa beans takes out the bitterness.
Fresh beans give you a toothache.
2
In the autumn we ______ the apples.
schooner
trading
harvest
support
3
My aunt says the best part of the orange is its _____.
trading
harvest
bargain
pulp
4
In this story, Mama steams conchs and picks out the meat. Conchs are a kind of ____.
shellfish
pan
bird
rock
5
The ______ ship brought silk from China to sell in France.
trading
harvest
machete
pulp
6
Why is it important to be the first person to see a schooner come into the bay?
They have a better chance of trading for what they want.
The ship gets crowded & there is lots of pushing and shoving
Captains trade only with the first few people who arrive.
Captains get angry if many people want to trade.
7
Sailors cover the ice on schooners with sawdust and hay to_____.
keep the ice from melting
keep the ice from moving
make it easier to load the ice
keep the ice clean
8
The first step in harvesting ice is _______.
cutting through the ice to the water
lifting blocks of ice
making grooves in the ice
floating ice on the water
9
Papa and Uncle Jacob worry when it snows on the river because_______.
then they can't walk on the river
then it is too cold to cut the ice
snow keeps the river from freezing
horses can't walk on snow
10
How are the girl in Santo Domingo and the girl in Maine alike?
Both like chocolate.
Both swim in a river.
Both climb trees.
Both drink coconut milk.
11
At the marine museum, we toured an old-fashioned ________ that was tied to the dock.
trading
machete
schooner
bargain
12
The farmer staked the plants; as the tomatoes were heavy and the vines could not ______ them.
bargain
support
trading
machete
13
The island people trade for what they need by using all the following except ______.
bananas
coconuts
ice
cocoa beans
14
What happens to the cocoa beans before they dry in the sun?
They are put in a bowl of coconut milk.
They are put between banana leaves with pulp.
They are covered with turtle grass.
They are split open with a machete.
15
What two locations are talked about in the story?
California and Maine
Santa Maria and Maine
Santo Domingo and Maryland
Santo Domingo and Maine
16
Whenever there is a sale, Mom tries to find a good _______.
support
bargain
harvest
pulp
17
Christina had to use a ______ to cut the tall grass.
schooner
bargain
machete
support
18
What must Jacob have traded to get the seashell on the mantel shelf?
hay
ice
pictures of Maine
the balsam rag
