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

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

3. Where is the one place salted meats have survived?
(a) Jewish Delis.
(b) Chinese restaurants.
(c) British butcher shops.
(d) Russian restaurants.

4. What is Sodium Chloride better known as?
(a) Cooking salt.
(b) Table salt.
(c) Body salt.
(d) Sniffing salt.

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

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

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

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

9. Which fish are the Swedish salted licorice candies shaped like?
(a) Bluebird.
(b) Robin.
(c) Herring.
(d) Gull.

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

11. What major even occurred in India in 1947?
(a) They gained independence.
(b) They were handed back Pakistan.
(c) They were bombed.
(d) They were invaded.

12. What did people find in the USA whilst looking for salt deposits?
(a) Silver.
(b) Gold.
(c) Oil.
(d) Coal.

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

14. Who reinstated the salt tax in France?
(a) Baptiste.
(b) Napolean.
(c) Louis XI.
(d) Camus.

15. Which country does Chapter 23 examine?
(a) India.
(b) Iraq.
(c) Iran.
(d) Pakistan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What revolution began in 1789?

2. What does Chapter 25 talk about the connection between?

3. What type of drilling took over percussion drilling in 1943?

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

5. What was name of the sauce that McIhenny invented?

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