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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who did Appert sell his invention to?
(a) The navy.
(b) The army.
(c) Friends.
(d) Hospitals.

4. What was name of the sauce that McIhenny invented?
(a) Ketchup.
(b) HP.
(c) Worcester.
(d) Tabasco.

5. What form of resistance did Gandhi develop while in jail?
(a) Religious resistance.
(b) Immovable resistance.
(c) Violent resistance.
(d) Non-violent resistant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did one person bring onto Avery Island to farm?

2. What did people find in the USA whilst looking for salt deposits?

3. Who was forbidden to trade with the United States after the revolution?

4. What is the name of the island the Louisiana salt works owners bought?

5. In which part of the state did Israel set up a salt works?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the American War of Independence begin?

2. How did the British help the Chinese in 1912?

3. What impact did Humphry Davy have on the salt industry?

4. How did the northern states immediately get one over the southern states at the start of the Civil War?

5. How did the South finally get its supplies of salt?

6. What problem does the Dead Sea have?

7. How was Tabasco invented?

8. How did the French deal with salt smugglers?

9. How did the Indians react to the British banning the trade of their salt?

10. How did Britain enforce the new salt laws?

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