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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In which part of China does Cantonese food come from?
(a) The East.
(b) The North.
(c) The West.
(d) The South.

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

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

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

5. What country was Matthias Schleiden from?
(a) Austria.
(b) France.
(c) Poland.
(d) Germany.

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

7. What famous event happened in India in 1857?
(a) The Indian revolution.
(b) Indian independence.
(c) Pakistan independence.
(d) The Indian uprising.

8. What is the title of Chapter 17?
(a) Red Salt.
(b) Forming Clouds.
(c) Pass Me the Salt.
(d) Pepper.

9. What did Mattias Schleiden claim was the mark of all tyrannies?
(a) Salt tax.
(b) Salt mines.
(c) Genocide.
(d) War.

10. What started developing all over England that caused problems to brine production?
(a) Torrential rain.
(b) Sinkholes.
(c) Earth quakes.
(d) Pitholes.

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

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

13. In what town was China salt production centered?
(a) Lamano.
(b) Zigong.
(c) Kin-Kan.
(d) Horang.

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

15. Which country are said to be the largest consumers of salt in the world?
(a) Britain.
(b) India.
(c) China.
(d) Japan.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which county colonized India for hundreds of years?

3. What was the name of the war Israel fought in 1948?

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

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

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