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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 20?
(a) The Soil Never Sets On.
(b) Where in the World.
(c) Developing a Thirst.
(d) That Word is Greek.

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

3. What did Appert invent?
(a) The use of chlorine in swimming pools.
(b) Cooking salt.
(c) The idea of drying out meat.
(d) The use of cans for preserving food.

4. What ocean did people originally think the Dead Sea was part of?
(a) The Pacific.
(b) The Indian.
(c) The Mediterranean.
(d) The Atlantic.

5. What did the Kibbutz eventually turn into?
(a) A university.
(b) A kindergarten.
(c) A salt works.
(d) A health spa.

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

7. What process did Davy use to break down Nitrous Oxide?
(a) Electrolysis.
(b) Cribbing.
(c) Neverlitis.
(d) Cornolysus.

8. Wht did international health group begin to worry about the effects of salt?
(a) It lacks iodine.
(b) It lacks iron.
(c) It was being made with chemicals.
(d) It lacks vitamins.

9. On which continent has salt consumption almost halved?
(a) Asia.
(b) Europe.
(c) North America.
(d) Africa.

10. What is the title of Chapter 22?
(a) The Salt of the Earth.
(b) Not Looking Back.
(c) Salt and the Great Sout.
(d) Salt and Pepper.

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

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

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

14. Who believed that the Dead Sea would become a source of mineral wealth?
(a) Missionaries.
(b) Jesuits.
(c) Zionists.
(d) Arabs.

15. Where did a group of speculators find salt deposits underground?
(a) Texas.
(b) New York.
(c) Louisiana.
(d) Mexico.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the sea that runs alongside Jordan and Israel?

2. What does the author say the Chinese are obsessed with?

3. What started developing all over England that caused problems to brine production?

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

5. What is the title of Chapter 23?

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