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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the mountain made entirely from rock salt?
(a) Mount Exodus.
(b) Mount Nazareth.
(c) Mount Leone.
(d) Mount Sodom.

2. Which country does Chapter 23 examine?
(a) Pakistan.
(b) Iraq.
(c) India.
(d) Iran.

3. Which fish are the Swedish salted licorice candies shaped like?
(a) Bluebird.
(b) Gull.
(c) Robin.
(d) Herring.

4. What revolution began in 1789?
(a) The French revolution.
(b) The Velvet Revolution.
(c) The Amercan Revolution.
(d) The Orange Revolution.

5. In what part of the USA was oil discovered?
(a) The East.
(b) The South.
(c) The West.
(d) The North.

6. What is Nitrous Oxide more commonly known as?
(a) Tear gas.
(b) Jumping gas.
(c) Laughing gas.
(d) Jack gas.

7. Which country consumes the most salt?
(a) China.
(b) Iraq.
(c) USA.
(d) Japan.

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

9. What was it illegal to salt in France during the salt tax?
(a) Coffee.
(b) Vegetables.
(c) Fish.
(d) Bread.

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

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

12. What is the name of the canal the Americans built on New York to transport salt?
(a) The Weener.
(b) The Erie.
(c) The Cod.
(d) The Amsterdam.

13. What was the French salt tax also known as?
(a) The Chappelle.
(b) The Toulouse.
(c) The Gabelle.
(d) The Rogue.

14. What type of drilling took over percussion drilling in 1943?
(a) Force drilling.
(b) Clock drilling.
(c) Rotary drilling.
(d) Pnuematic drilling.

15. What did Humphry Davy invent?
(a) Ketchup.
(b) Charcoal.
(c) Chloride.
(d) Sodium.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which country helped the new China Republic to rebuild their salt industry?

2. What is the title of Chapter 16?

3. What does sodium become if one isolates the chemical chlorine?

4. What famous event happened in India in 1857?

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

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