Is It Fair To Eat Chocolate Assessment

What is the author’s MAIN purpose for beginning paragraph 1 with a question to readers?

• To give readers information about the topic

• To present the author’s point of view on the topic

• To grab the readers’ attention by making them think about their own experiences with the topic

• To explain a problem that needs a solution

Which sentence in paragraph 2 BEST explains why Sametta does not go to school.

• Her family needs her to work in order for them to survive.

• Imagine this: 12-year old Sametta lives in Cote d’Ivoire, West Africa.

• She wakes up at 4:00 a.m., eats millet porridge, then walks two miles to her family’s cocoa bean field.

• For the next 12 hours she picks cocoa pods and breaks them open so she can scoop out the 30–50 seeds, or “beans,” inside.

• About 400 beans are needed to make one pound of chocolate.

Which statement BEST describes the meaning of the phrase “out of the question” as it is used in this sentence?

• Child laborers question why they cannot go to school.

• The families of child laborers question the value of school.

• Going to school is not possible for child laborers.

• Going to school is not something child laborers like to do.

What is the meaning of the word “means” as it is used in this sentence?

• Method

• Definition

• Purpose

• Demonstration

• Big chocolate companies feel bad about the harsh conditions faced by their child laborers.

• Paying workers low wages is one way big chocolate companies can keep profits high.

• Big chocolate companies have the power to decide how much they will pay for cocoa beans.

• Big chocolate companies did not make enough profits in the past, so they feel pressure to make higher profits now.

• Big chocolate companies plan to start paying laborers more as soon as they have raised enough cash.

Which sentence from paragraph 5 MOST CLEARLY states that a lack of money among farming families is the biggest reason for child labor?

• In 2001 the U.S. government created a document, the Harkin-Engel Protocol, that called the chocolate companies to help eliminate child slavery and child labor by July 2005.

• However, chocolate companies have not abided by this protocol and the deadline has been extended to July 2008.

• Even if the companies do convince countries to stop selling their children, and they teach farmers that their children need to go to school, the cocoa farmers would still make barely enough money to survive.

Which sentence from paragraph 6 MOST clearly states the writer’s point of view?

• An emerging group of farms in Africa and South America are called Fair Trade Certified.

• There are about 45,000 farmers in this program.

• There is hope.

• Chocolate made from these farmers’ beans is labeled Fair Trade.

• Companies that buy cocoa beans from these farmers sign a document promising to pay the farmers a fair trade price which is enough for them to buy food and clothing for their families and send their children to school.

Fill in the blank with the set of words that best completes the sentence. The word “minimum” means that the price ______

• needs to be a certain amount or higher.

• needs to be a certain amount or lower.

• needs to be set so it never changes.

In paragraph 1, the author makes a claim: “Child labor is becoming of increasing concern to people who buy chocolate.” Which of the following types of evidence does the author use to support this claim?

• Statistics about how many children work in chocolate production

• Quotes from customers who are concerned about child labor

• An anecdote (story) about a child laborer’s living and working conditions

Which sentence from the text BEST shows that Fair Trade is good for farmers?

• For generations they have depended on growing and selling cocoa beans as their main means of survival.

• Companies that buy cocoa beans from these farmers sign a document promising to pay the farmers a fair trade price which is enough for them to buy food and clothing for their families and send their children to school.

• Also, all organic chocolate made with cocoa grown on farms without child laborers is labeled fair trade.

• Now chocolate can be eaten fair and square!