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

2. What was the French salt tax also known as?
(a) The Chappelle.
(b) The Gabelle.
(c) The Rogue.
(d) The Toulouse.

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

4. What did soldiers and salt workers set up next to the salt works?
(a) A deli.
(b) A church.
(c) A housing estate.
(d) A kibbutz.

5. Which of the following type of fish is not commonly salted?
(a) Tuna.
(b) Capers
(c) Sole.
(d) Anchovies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does sodium become if one isolates the chemical chlorine?

2. Who did Appert sell his invention to?

3. Which two states were colonies of Britain?

4. What is the title of Chapter 26?

5. What is the name of the canal the Americans built on New York to transport salt?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do people combine salt and sugar?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Why did the French hate salt taxes so much?

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

10. Why have people decreased their salt intake?

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