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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the mountain made entirely from rock salt?

2. What river did Gandhi lead a group to in 1930 to scrape up sea salt?

3. Who believed that the Dead Sea would become a source of mineral wealth?

4. Why did the British claim it was okay to kidnap American soldiers?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What problem does the Dead Sea have?

2. What happened to Cheshire salt?

3. Why was India ruled entirely by a British government in 1857?

4. What did Birdseye discover?

5. Why did another war breakout between America and Britain in 1812?

6. How did the Dead Sea become a health spa?

7. How did the French deal with salt smugglers?

8. How was Tabasco invented?

9. How did a man called Appert destroy the salt industry?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why was Humphry Davy in the development of salt? What problems has Davy's discovery caused?

Essay Topic 2

Why did salt start to become less important to society in the 19th century? How did this affect the food industry in both Europe and America?

Essay Topic 3

What was Basque culture like before they discovered how important salt was? How did salt change the Basque way of life?

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