Which information is provided by the description of the setting in this passage from My Antonia?
The land was growing rougher; I was told that we
were approaching Squaw Creek, which cut up the
Nest half of the Shimerdas' place and made the
land of little value for farming. Soon we could see
the broken, grassy clay cliffs which indicated the
windings of the stream, and the glittering tops of
the cottonwoods and ash trees that grew down in
the ravine. Some of the cottonwoods had already
turned, and the yellow leaves and shining white
bark made them look like the gold and silver trees
in fairy tales.
O The poor farm contrasts with the rich beauty of
nature.
O The Shimerdas' farm and everything around it is
poor and ugly.
O The farm, like the rest of the prairie, is beautiful.
The farm is fertile because of all the trees on it.

Match the definition or example to the term.

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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