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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which country consumes the most salt?
(a) Iraq.
(b) USA.
(c) Japan.
(d) China.

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

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

5. What is the title of Chapter 19?
(a) How to Survive.
(b) The Soil Never Sets on.
(c) The Mythology of Geology.
(d) Up and At 'em.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Where were the Mormons before they settled in Utah?

4. What part of Virginia sided with the union?

5. What ocean did people originally think the Dead Sea was part of?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What impact did Humphry Davy have on the salt industry?

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

4. Why have people decreased their salt intake?

5. What did Birdseye discover?

6. How did the French deal with salt smugglers?

7. How did New York improve the salt industry after the 1812 war?

8. Why do people believe the Dead Sea is so salty?

9. How did the British help the Chinese in 1912?

10. How did the French finance minister reform the salt taxes?

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