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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 religious group settled in the state of Utah?
(a) Mormons.
(b) Amish.
(c) Buddhists.
(d) Muslims.

2. What ocean did people originally think the Dead Sea was part of?
(a) The Atlantic.
(b) The Mediterranean.
(c) The Pacific.
(d) The Indian.

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

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

5. Who was forbidden to trade with the United States after the revolution?
(a) Dutch colonies.
(b) French colonies.
(c) British colonies.
(d) German colonies.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who believed that the Dead Sea would become a source of mineral wealth?

2. Which country are said to be the largest consumers of salt in the world?

3. What is Appert's nationality?

4. Which two states were colonies of Britain?

5. What party did Deng Xiaoping become the leader of in the latter part of the twentieth century?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is unique about the Dead Sea?

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

6. How did Britain enforce the new salt laws?

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

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

9. What happened to Cheshire salt?

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

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