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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was forbidden to trade with the United States after the revolution?
(a) French colonies.
(b) Dutch colonies.
(c) British colonies.
(d) German colonies.

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

3. Which of the following people were exempt from military service in the American War for Independence?
(a) Postal workers.
(b) Salt workers.
(c) Journalists.
(d) Farmers.

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

5. Whose work did Gandhi read in jail while in India?
(a) Camus.
(b) Sartre.
(c) Thoreau.
(d) Robideaux.

6. What did the American south lack adequate supplies for against the north?
(a) Guns.
(b) Water.
(c) Salt.
(d) Bombs.

7. What did Union forces destroy in West Virginia in 1862?
(a) The salt works.
(b) The Virginia university.
(c) The tobacco plantation.
(d) The steel works.

8. What color was the brine the settlers in San Francisco took from the sea before the made it into salt?
(a) White.
(b) Orange.
(c) Red.
(d) Blue.

9. Which of the following countries did not go to America to find salt?
(a) Germany.
(b) France.
(c) Holland.
(d) Britain.

10. What is the title of Chapter 18?
(a) Are You Ready to Go.
(b) The Mythology if Geology.
(c) The Odium of Sodium.
(d) The Soil Never Sets On.

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

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

13. What did one person bring onto Avery Island to farm?
(a) Louisiana Cotton.
(b) Mexican chili peppers.
(c) British wheat.
(d) Virginian tobacco.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which country does Chapter 23 examine?

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

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

4. What revolution began in 1789?

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

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