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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Chapter 25 talk about the connection between?
(a) China and Japan.
(b) Britain and CHina.
(c) Saltiness and ill health.
(d) Saltiness and sweetness.

2. What is the title of Chapter 23?
(a) The Last Day of Zigong.
(b) The Last Week in Pittsburgh.
(c) A Useful Tool.
(d) Creating the New World.

3. Why did the British ban Orissa salt?
(a) It was causing disease among the British community.
(b) Because it was causing tensions within the country.
(c) Because it was used for religious practises.
(d) So they could market their own salt.

4. What party did Deng Xiaoping become the leader of in the latter part of the twentieth century?
(a) The Socialist party.
(b) The Fascist party.
(c) The Capitalist party.
(d) The Communist party.

5. What do Americans mostly use their salt for?
(a) De-icing roads.
(b) Religious practises.
(c) Medications.
(d) Making chocolate.

6. What is the title of Chapter 26?
(a) Big Lake, Little Salt.
(b) Find Me Some Friends.
(c) Salt in the Water.
(d) A Little Too Salty.

7. What country does the author return to in Chapter 23?
(a) India.
(b) USA.
(c) Israel.
(d) China.

8. Who led the popular movement against British salt polices?
(a) Rohit.
(b) Gandhi.
(c) Humble.
(d) Jacobs.

9. What is the title of Chapter 24?
(a) Big Lake, Little Salt.
(b) Ma, La and Mao.
(c) More Salt Than Fish,
(d) Call the Doctor.

10. What is Sodium Chloride better known as?
(a) Table salt.
(b) Sniffing salt.
(c) Cooking salt.
(d) Body salt.

11. Which of the following countries did not go to America to find salt?
(a) France.
(b) Germany.
(c) Britain.
(d) Holland.

12. What is the title of Chapter 19?
(a) Up and At 'em.
(b) The Soil Never Sets on.
(c) The Mythology of Geology.
(d) How to Survive.

13. What part of Virginia sided with the union?
(a) South Virginia.
(b) North Virgina.
(c) East Virginia.
(d) West Virginia.

14. What does sodium become if one isolates the chemical chlorine?
(a) Chlorine.
(b) Bleach.
(c) Carbon Monoxide.
(d) Nitrous Oxide.

15. Why did the British claim it was okay to kidnap American soldiers?
(a) They were not men of God.
(b) They had British wives.
(c) They were slave owners.
(d) They had deserted from the British Navy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What famous company did a man named Birdseye form?

2. Whose work did Gandhi read in jail while in India?

3. Which country consumes the most salt?

4. Wht did international health group begin to worry about the effects of salt?

5. Which of the following people were exempt from military service in the American War for Independence?

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