“Kingdom of Mocha” 1. Briefly note the talents / special skills of: - Benny six toes: - Cecil: - Fingers Linguini: - Ian: - Pablo: - Raquel: - Big Daddy: - Little Augie: - Mary Jane: 2. Why did the barter system fail? How did Big Daddy resolve this problem? 3. What was the result of the introduction of foreign trade? 4. Where did Pablo get the capital (money) to form the Greater Mochan Wood Supply Company? 5. What did Big Daddy do to solve the problem of an empty royal treasury? 6. What did Pablo and Little Augie do that upset environmentalists? How did they solve this dilemma? 7. Tell how the big storm affected the Mochan economy? 8. What was Big Daddy’s answer to the inflation problem? Carpentry Fishing 9. What caused Mocha’s unemployment and resulting recession? 10. When price controls were lifted on Mocha, what was the result? 11. What effect did Cousin Henry’s invention have on the Mochan Economy? 12. How did the wood company deal with the problem of supply and demand? 13. How did the war between the Stoned Islanders and Garlic Isanders affect Mocha? 14. What are some possible solutions to Mocha’s Wood shortage problem?

Announcer two: ladies and gentlemen, following on the news given in our bulletin a moment ago, the government meteorological bureau has requested the large observatories of the country to keep an astronomical watch on any further disturbances occurring on the planet mars. due to the unusual nature of this occurrence, we have arranged an interview with noted astronomer professor pierson, who will give us his views on the event. in a few moments we will take you to the princeton observatory at princeton, new jersey. we return you until then to the music of ramón raquello and his orchestra. the passage is from the transcript of the radio adaptation of the war of the worlds by h. g. wells. instead of including expert interviews, h. g. wells uses a narrator to tell about an alien invasion that occurred a few years earlier. by including expert interviews, how does the radio broadcast change the story most effectively? o.a. it puts the story in the past tense, increasing its personal tone. o o b. it makes the broadcast sound more like a fictional story. o o c. it makes the broadcast sound like a news report. o d. it makes the story sound less believable by changing who presents the story's details.

Read the passage, then answer the question that follows. no one could have seen it at the time, but the invention of beet sugar was not just a challenge to cane. it was a hint—just a glimpse, like a twist that comes about two thirds of the way through a movie—that the end of the age of sugar was in sight. for beet sugar showed that in order to create that perfect sweetness you did not need slaves, you did not need plantations, in fact you did not even need cane. beet sugar was a foreshadowing of what we have today: the age of science, in which sweetness is a product of chemistry, not whips. in 1854 only 11 percent of world sugar production came from beets. by 1899 the percentage had risen to about 65 percent. and beet sugar was just the first challenge to cane. by 1879 chemists discovered saccharine—a laboratory-created substance that is several hundred times sweeter than natural sugar. today the sweeteners used in the foods you eat may come from corn (high-fructose corn syrup), from fruit (fructose), or directly from the lab (for example, aspartame, invented in 1965, or sucralose—splenda—created in 1976). brazil is the land that imported more africans than any other to work on sugar plantations, and in brazil the soil is still perfect for sugar. cane grows in brazil today, but not always for sugar. instead, cane is often used to create ethanol, much as corn farmers in america now convert their harvest into fuel. –sugar changed the world, marc aronson and marina budhos how does this passage support the claim that sugar was tied to the struggle for freedom? it shows that the invention of beet sugar created competition for cane sugar. it shows that technology had a role in changing how we sweeten our foods. it shows that the beet sugar trade provided jobs for formerly enslaved workers. it shows that sweeteners did not need to be the product of sugar plantations and slavery.

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