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

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

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

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

5. In which part of the state did Israel set up a salt works?
(a) The East.
(b) The West.
(c) The North.
(d) The South.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose work did Gandhi read in jail while in India?

2. What country was Matthias Schleiden from?

3. In which state is the Great Salt Lake located?

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

5. What was it illegal to salt in France during the salt tax?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Birdseye discover?

3. While were the colonies of Massachusetts and Virgina so reliant on Britain?

4. Why was India ruled entirely by a British government in 1857?

5. Why do people combine salt and sugar?

6. What problem does the Dead Sea have?

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

8. How did Britain change the salt industry in India?

9. How did Morton become the world's largest salt producer?

10. How did the Indians react to the British banning the trade of their salt?

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