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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 process did Davy use to break down Nitrous Oxide?
(a) Neverlitis.
(b) Electrolysis.
(c) Cribbing.
(d) Cornolysus.

2. What is the title of Chapter 21?
(a) The Last Day of Zigong.
(b) Not Looking Back.
(c) Salt and the Great Soul.
(d) Hold Yourselves.

3. What did one person bring onto Avery Island to farm?
(a) Virginian tobacco.
(b) Louisiana Cotton.
(c) Mexican chili peppers.
(d) British wheat.

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

5. In what part of the USA was oil discovered?
(a) The East.
(b) The South.
(c) The North.
(d) The West.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 16?

2. What did Humphry Davy invent?

3. What revolution began in 1789?

4. Which two states were colonies of Britain?

5. Who led the popular movement against British salt polices?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did New York improve the salt industry after the 1812 war?

4. How did Britain enforce the new salt laws?

5. How did the American War of Independence begin?

6. What happened to Cheshire salt?

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

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

9. How did the French deal with salt smugglers?

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

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