Question

Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World.

The diamond and the house: two family treasures, two parts of the story of sugar. We realized that our two family stories—Marina's great-grandparents, brought to Guyana to replace slaves, and Marc's aunt's grandfather, helping to refine an alternative to that same sugar—were just the beginning of a much larger story about a remarkable substance. It is a story of the movement of millions of people, of fortunes made and lost, of brutality and delight—all because of tiny crystals stirred into our coffee, twirled on top of a cake. Sugar, we began to see, changed the world.

What is the purpose of this passage?

Answer 1

(B) to link the authors’ families to sugar

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

B

Step-by-step explanation:

The purpose of this passage is to link the family history of the authors to sugar and bring the exploration and production of sugar to a human level by explaining the everyday effects of the massive and long-reaching sugar industry in its early days.

The passage is an introduction to a thorough and in-depth description of the human movements, the heartbreak, the suffering, and the interactions behind the sugar trade and how they relate to the narrative told by two authors whose families were deeply involved in that activity.