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

2. What is the name of the popular salted salmon dish?
(a) Lox.
(b) Nimble.
(c) Cox.
(d) Gumbo.

3. What is Appert's nationality?
(a) Swiss.
(b) British.
(c) Spanish.
(d) French.

4. What was the most famous brand of sea salt from India before the British came?
(a) Burra.
(b) Baltic.
(c) Orissa.
(d) Ruby.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Nitrous Oxide more commonly known as?

3. What famous event happened in India in 1857?

4. What did the American south lack adequate supplies for against the north?

5. Which country helped the new China Republic to rebuild their salt industry?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to Cheshire salt?

2. What is unique about the Dead Sea?

3. How did the Dead Sea become a health spa?

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

5. Why did another war breakout between America and Britain in 1812?

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

7. Why do people combine salt and sugar?

8. What virtually destroyed the salt industry in China in 1995?

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

10. How did the French deal with salt smugglers?

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