1. Q1. [00:00] “A conservative estimate tells us there are more than 27 million people enslaved in the world today.”

    What does a conservative estimate means?
    1.   An inaccurate estimation
    2.   A moderate estimation
  2. Q2. [00:16] “A hundred and fifty years ago, an agricultural slave cost about three times the annual salary of an American worker. That equates to about $50,000 in today's money.”

    ‘equates to’ means:
    1.   Is equal to
    2.   reduces to
  3. Q3. [00:28] “Yet today, entire families can be enslaved for generations over a debt as small as $18. Astonishingly, slavery generates profits of more than $13 billion worldwide each year.”

    ‘astonishingly’ means:
    1.   to everyone's surprise
    2.   to everyone’s disgust
  4. Q4. [01:04] “Today's slavery is about commerce, so the goods that enslaved people produce have value,but the people producing them are disposable.”

    ‘Disposable’ in this context means:
    1.   not available after use
    2.   designed to be thrown away after use
  5. Q5. [01:28] “In India and Nepal, I was introduced to the brick kilns.”

    From the images in the video, ‘a kiln’ is:
    1.   a large oven for burning, drying, or processing something, such as porcelain or bricks
    2.   a hot charmer
  6. Q6. [01:28] “In India and Nepal, I was introduced to the brick kilns. This strange and awesome sight was like walking into ancient Egypt or Dante's Inferno.”

    Dante’s Inferno refers to:
    1.   Paradise
    2.   Hell
  7. Q7. [01:38] “Enveloped in temperatures of 130 degrees, men, women, children, entire families in fact, were cloaked in a heavy blanket of dust, while mechanically stacking bricks on their head…”

    ‘cloaked’ means:
    1.   covered or concealed with or as if with a cloak
    2.   disappeared
  8. Q8. [01:21] “Men, women, children, entire families in fact, were cloaked in a heavy blanket of dust, while mechanically stacking bricks on their head, up to 18 at a time, and carrying them from the scorching kilns to trucks hundreds of yards away.”

    ‘to stack’ means:
    1.   To arrange in a pile
    2.   To hit
  9. Q9. [01:49] “while mechanically stacking bricks on their head, up to 18 at a time, and carrying them from the scorching kilns to trucks hundreds of yards away.”

    ‘scorching’ means:
    1.   hot and dry enough to burn or parch a surface
    2.   fast-moving
  10. Q10. [02:00] “Deadened by monotony and exhaustion, they work silently, doing this task over and over for 16 or 17 hours a day....”

    ‘monotony’ means:
    1.   wearisome routine; dullness
    2.   heavy workload
  11. Q11. [02:12] “There were no breaks for food, no water breaks, and the severe dehydration made urinating pretty much inconsequential.”

    ‘inconsequential’ means:
    1.   trivial or insignificant
    2.   random
  12. Q12. [02:21] “So pervasive was the heat and the dust that my camera became too hot to even touch and ceased working.”

    ‘pervasive’ means:
    1.   persuasive
    2.   spreading or spread throughout
  13. Q13. [02:21] “So pervasive was the heat and the dust that my camera became too hot to even touch and ceased working.”

    ‘cease’ means:
    1.   stop
    2.   start
  14. Q14. [03”07] “I couldn't offer them any direct help. I couldn't give them money, nothing. I wasn't a citizen of that country. I could get them in a worse situation than they were already in. I'd have to rely on Free the Slaves to work within the system for their liberation…”

    ‘liberation’ means:
    1.   The act or process of trying to achieve equal rights and status
    2.   The act or process of trying to achieve high literacy