Question

Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World.

One of these early Hindu writings, the Atharva Veda, speaks of an archer's bow made of sugar cane. It tells of growing a circle of sugar cane as a kind of sweet protection for a lover, and it includes specific instructions on how to use sugar cane. To worship and request help from Durga, the most important goddess, you lie down and face a three-cornered fire pot. Then, as you speak the sacred words, you place your offerings in the fire.

Sugar cane was now an ingredient in ceremonies involving fire. Maybe after many, many offerings a priest noticed that if the juice of the cane was boiled in the right way, it crystallized into sweet, dark brown clumps. Perhaps that transformation itself seemed magical—a heated liquid turning into something that looked like dark grains of sand. In the Atharva Veda, sugar cane is called ikshu, which means "something that people want, or desire, because of its sweetness.” But once people learned how to make sugar crystals, they began to use the name sharkara, which also meant "gravel.”

What evidence from the passage best supports the inference that sugar cane had special significance in the ancient era? Select three options.

"you lie down and face a three-cornered fire pot"
"sugar cane was now an ingredient in ceremonies involving fire"
"it crystallized into sweet, dark brown clumps"
“Perhaps that transformation itself seemed magical”
"sugar cane is called ikshu, which means 'something that people want'"
"they began to use the name sharkara, which also meant 'gravel'"

Answer 1

Answer:

"sugar cane was now an ingredient in ceremonies involving fire"

“Perhaps that transformation itself seemed magical”

"sugar cane is called ikshu, which means 'something that people want'"

Explanation:

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Answer 2

“Perhaps that transformation itself seemed magical”

"sugar cane is called ikshu, which means 'something that people want"

"they began to use the name sharkara, which also meant 'gravel'"

• In this exercise, the objective is to pick out the statements presented below which have been taken from the paragraph and choose the statements which showcase the highest significance of sugar in the ancient era.
• The first statement is prominent but it does not showcase sugar as a major cultural movement. It showcases sugar in accordance with one practice that was carried out.
• The second statement is also the same. While sugar was now being used in ceremonies, it was also not a major or sole ingredient in the world of fire ceremonies.
• The third statement explains sugar in it's different stages. It does not tell us much about the historical sense of sugar and it's place in the ancient world.
• The fourth statement gives us some context into the popualrity of sugar. Through the use of rituals it would be obvious why sugar would have such magical properties.
• The fifth stament pins the exact important of sugar in the ancient world. It showcases what it was called and what it meant which places it in the context of the ancient world.
• The sixth statement also tells us more about the evolution of sugar in the ancient world and the ways in which it was renamed.

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