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Candy corn is a tiny, triangular sweet no bigger than the tip of your finger, striped in three bold bands: a white pointed top, an orange middle, and a wide yellow base. Bite into one and it is waxy, chewy, and almost pure sugar, with a faint honey-and-vanilla flavor. People either adore it or can't stand the sight of it, and almost nobody feels lukewarm about the stuff.  \nThat fierce love-it-or-hate-it split is nothing new, because this candy is well over a century old. It is usually credited to George Renninger of the Wunderlee Candy Company,  \nwho is thought to have invented it back in the 1880s. Picture America at that time: most families still lived on farms, and corn was one of the crops that fed the whole country. A candy shaped like a kernel of corn felt friendly and familiar, a little piece of the harvest you could carry in your pocket.  \nFamiliar as it looked, making it was surprisingly slow and messy work. Back then there were no machines to squirt out neat rows, so workers poured hot sugar syrup from buckets into kernel-shaped molds by hand. They laid down one color, let it cool, then poured the next, which is exactly why each piece has three separate stripes. Doing this all day was hot, sticky, tiring labor, and a single worker could only fill so many trays before the batch hardened.  \nThat handmade, three-layer look turned out to be the candy's lucky charm. When another company, the Goelitz Confectionery Company, began producing it, the treat's popularity spread far beyond the farm. Goelitz is still around today under the name Jelly Belly, which means the recipe has been passed down for well over a hundred years. Astonishingly, the candy is still made in those same three colors, so the piece you eat this October looks almost identical to one from the 1800s.  \nLooking the same for a century has not made everyone agree it should exist. According to surveys reported around Halloween, candy corn regularly lands on both the  \nmost-loved and most-hated candy lists, sometimes in the very same poll. Fans say the honey flavor and the satisfying way it snaps between your teeth are part of the fun. Critics groan that it tastes like flavored wax and is far too sweet, arguing that one handful is one handful too many.  \nWhichever side you land on, the numbers show plenty of people are still buying it. Manufacturers report making billions of these little kernels every year, most of them sold in the weeks around Halloween. There is even a National Candy Corn Day, celebrated on October 30th, the day before Halloween. So the next time you spot that white-orange-yellow triangle, remember it has survived more than 130 years of people insisting it is the worst candy ever made.  \nCandy Corn  \nName:  \n\n| Solve each problem.\u003Cbr>Use the article to answer the question.\u003Cbr>1) According to the passage, what does candy corn look like?\u003Cbr>A. A long strip with a white end, a yellow middle, and an orange tip\u003Cbr>B. A small triangle with a white tip, an orange middle, and a yellow base\u003Cbr>C. A small square with a yellow tip, a white middle, and an orange base\u003Cbr>D. A round ball with an orange top, a yellow middle, and a white bottom |  |  |  |  | Answers\u003Cbr>1.  \u003Cbr>2.  \u003Cbr>3.   |  |  |  |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 2) How does the author organize the passage as a whole?\u003Cbr>A. It moves from what the candy is, to its history, to today's debate over it\u003Cbr>B. It lists candies from most popular to least popular each year\u003Cbr>C. It follows one worker through a single day at a candy factory\u003Cbr>D. It compares candy corn to several other Halloween treats in turn |  |  |  |  | 4.  \u003Cbr>5.  \u003Cbr>6.   |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 3) Why did a candy shaped like a corn kernel appeal to Americans in the 1880s?\u003Cbr>A. Farmers had banned all other candies from being sold in stores\u003Cbr>B. 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