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Sugar Changed the World, Part 1: Author’s Purpose

Question 6 • CA-English Language Arts 10 A

Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World.I wanted to know more about the beguiling Nina, and my cousin had plenty of stories to share. He told me that her grandfather was a Russian serf—a farmer who could be bought and sold by the noble who owned his land. Family legend has it that this serf, a remarkable and intelligent man, helped to change the course of the history of sugar. In the early 1800s, the British controlled most of the sugar plantations of the Caribbean and the sea routes to Eu

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It emphasizes the problem-solution structure of the passage.
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It explains further the connection between the sugar industry and slavery.
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It supports the central ideas of the passage with specific dates.
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It provides key locations to events described in the passage.
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