Book Quiz: All about Chocolate

The process for making chocolate

• can be done in your kitchen

• can be mastered quickly

• is done only one way

• has many steps

Which group of people told

Cortez that a drink made from

cacao beans was the drink of

the gods?

• Aztecs

• French

• Spanish

• all of the above

What are ingredients?

• packages of cocoa

• different food items

  that go into a recipe

• blooms on a cacao plant

• shells from roasted beans

During conching, cocoa butter

and cocoa powder are mixed with _____________ until smooth.

• milk

• sugar

• vanilla

• all of the above

In the process of making

chocolate, what is the step

after the pods are picked?

• The beans are put into

  piles or boxes.

• The beans are allowed

  to ferment.

• The pod is cut open with

  a machete.

• The pods are put out

  to dry in the sun.

What does it mean to consume?

• eat

• grow

• enjoy

• import

Which of the following is the

best summary statement for

this book?

• Making chocolate is a

  complicated and time-

  consuming process that

  has changed over the

  past two thousand years.

• Chocolate was first used

  by people in Central and

  South America and was

  not introduced to Europeans

  until 1500.

• Chocolate has become

  a favorite treat of many

  people the world over but

  began as a bitter drink.

• There are many beans

  in every cacao pod that

  look unlike anything

  related to chocolate.

What is a conquistador?

• machine that uses animals,

  wind, or steam power to

  grind things

• a long, thick knife

• a man who took over areas

  of the Americas for Spain

• a name for a drink made

  with cocoa beans

What key ingredient

changed attitudes about

chocolate in Europe?

• milk

• sugar

• vanilla

• cocoa butter

What conditions does a cacao

tree need to grow well?

• hot and wet

• full sunlight when mature

• protection from wind

  and sun when young

• all of the above