Responding to an Informational Text

Due: Saturday, 20 May 2023, 12:59 AM

Answer the following questions based on the informational text, Chocolate. Please note the questions words ( WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, HOW, WHY)
1. How did people first consume chocolate?

a. As a sweet drink
b. As a bitter drink
c. As a chocolate bar
d. In cakes and pastries
e. As a white chocolate bar


2. Why did Linnaeus name the plant Theobroma?

a. Because he believed it to be a “gift from heaven.”
b. Because he believed it to be“food of the gods.”
c. Because he thought chocolate to be toxic.
b. Because chocolate was so rare.
e. Both B and C are correct.



3. Who was Montezuma?
A. He was an explorer from Mexico.
B. He was the emperor of Mexico.
C. He was an explorer from Spain.
D. He was the king of Spain.
E. He was a baker in Spain.

4. When was the first chocolate bar made?
A. 1820

B. 1849

C. 1502

D. 1519


5. Who made the first powdered chocolate?
A. Cortez
B. Linnaeus
C. Columbus
D. van Houten
E. King Charles



6. Which people eat the most chocolate per person?
A. The Dutch
B. The Swiss
C. The English
D. The Mexicans
E. The Brazilians



7. Why should dog never eat chocolate
A. The don’t like the taste
B. It is too expensive
C. It may make them sick
D. Their bodies are too small

8. A divine gift is...
A. a chocolate gift.
B. a gift from God.
C. a delicious gift.
D. a bitter gift.
E. a dangerous gift.

9. Pastries are...
A. sweet baked goods.

B. bitter–tasting drinks.

C. chocolate candy bars .
D. chocolate candies.

E. Both C and D are correct.

10. What are recipes?
A. Herbs and Spices
B. Countries
C. Machines
D. Food ingredients
E. Chocolate powders

11. When you prevent something, you...
A. do not let it happen.
B. do not discuss it.
C. do not allow it.
D. do not stop it
E. Both A and C are correct.
F. Both A and B are correct.

12. If something is toxic it is...
A. poisonous
B. disgusting.
C. emotional
D. popular.
E. harmless.