EXPLANATION Text Quiz 1

Chocolate

            Chocolate starts with a tree called the cacao tree. This tree grows in equatorial regions, especially in places such as South America, Africa, and Indonesia. The cacao tree produces a fruit about the size of a small pineapple. Inside the fruit are the tree seeds also known as cacao beans.

            The beans are fermented for about a week, dried in the sun, and then shipped to the chocolate maker. The chocolate maker starts by roasting the beans to bring out the flavor, so they are often sorted and blended to produce a distinctive mix. Next, the roasted beans are winnowed. Winnowing removes the meat nib of the cacao bean from its shell. Then the nibs are blended. The blended nibs are ground to make it liquid. The liquid is called chocolate liquor. it’s tastes bitter. All seeds contain some amount of fat, ad cacao beans are not different. However, cacao beans are half fat, which is why the ground nibs from liquid. it’s pure bitter chocolate.

 

1.      The text is about . . . .

a.       the cacao tree

b.      the cacao beans

c.       the raw chocolate

d.      the making of chocolate

e.       the flavor of chocolate

 

2.      The second paragraph focuses on . . . .

a.       the process of producing chocolate

b.      how to produce the cocoa flavor

c.       where chocolate comes from

d.      the chocolate liquor

e.       the cacao fruit

 

3.      “…, so they are often sorted and blended to produce ….” (Paragraph 2)

a.       arranged

b.      combined

c.       separated

d.      distributed

e.       organize

 

4.      How does the chocolate make start to make chocolate?

a.       By fermenting the beans

b.      By roasting the beans

c.       By blending the beans

d.      By Sorting the beans

e.       By Drying the beans