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Source: magoosh very hard reading comp
The American colonists were less interested in maple syrup than in granular sugar. The pure, white, crystallized product of sugar cane was still an expensive luxury, imported from plantations in the West Indies. Maple sugar offered an accessible and affordable substitute.?These colonists, out on the imperial periphery, wanted to demonstrate that their fledgling society was just as sophisticated and elegant as that of England. They took the concentrated maple sap and poured it into conical molds, refining it into white sugar-loaves like those produced in Britain from cane syrup.?Maple sugar, a distinctively American product, was touted as the equal of the sugar served in the most elegant Old World salons. The clearest syrups and whitest sugars, which betrayed the least hint of their rustic origins, commanded premium prices.
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Which of the following is best supported by the passage?
- A The American colonists unwittingly revealed their status by using maple syrup as a substitute for granular sugar.
- B The price of sugar was in some sense influenced by the perception of its origin.
- C Maple syrup provided American colonists an affordable means by which to produce granular sugar
- D The process of creating maple syrup was an act of rebellion on the part of the American colonists.
- E American colonists publicly conceded that maple sugar was similar to the sugar offered in the Old World.