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

2. What country does the author return to in Chapter 23?
(a) China.
(b) India.
(c) USA.
(d) Israel.

3. What famous event happened in India in 1857?
(a) The Indian revolution.
(b) Pakistan independence.
(c) The Indian uprising.
(d) Indian independence.

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

5. How did the British create serious salt shortages during the American War for Independence?
(a) They blew up the salt mines.
(b) They befriended the Native Indians.
(c) They took over all the towns with salt industries.
(d) They blockaded American ports.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Appert's nationality?

2. What is the name of the mountain made entirely from rock salt?

3. Who did Appert sell his invention to?

4. What did Appert invent?

5. What was Jean Baptiste Colbert's role in the French government?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did the Americans try to combat the British blockade?

3. In what areas dishes does the heavy use of salt still survive?

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

5. How did the northern states immediately get one over the southern states at the start of the Civil War?

6. What problems do the British salt mines have in this section?

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

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

9. What happened to Cheshire salt?

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

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