PART B: Which TWO phrases from the text best support the answers to Part A? A. "And he took the calf the people had made and burned it in the fire; then he
ground it to powder, scattered it on the water and made the Israelites drink it."
(Paragraph 10)
B. “He said to Aaron, 'What did these people do to you, that you led them into such
great sin?"" (Paragraph 11)
C. "They said to me, 'Make us gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses
who brought us up out of Egypt, we don't know what has happened to him."
(Paragraph 12)
D. "Moses saw that the people were running wild and that Aaron had let them get
out of control and so become a laughingstock to their enemies." (Paragraph 13)
E. "The next day Moses said to the people, 'You have committed a great sin. But
now I will go up to the Lord; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin."
(Paragraph 15)
F. "The Lord replied to Moses, 'Whoever has sinned against me I will blot out of my
book." (Paragraph 17)

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.