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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following countries did not go to America to find salt?

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

3. What is Sodium Chloride better known as?

4. Who reinstated the salt tax in France?

5. What revolution began in 1789?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Britain enforce the new salt laws?

3. Why do people combine salt and sugar?

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

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

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

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

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

9. Why have people decreased their salt intake?

10. What problem does the Dead Sea have?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What health problems can salt cause? How have countries tried to combat the health problems caused by too much salt?

Essay Topic 2

What part did salt play in the following conflicts?

1. The American Revolution.

2. The French Revolution.

3. The American Civil War.

Essay Topic 3

What importance have the following groups attached to salt?

1. Romans.

2. Greek philosophers.

3. Psychologists.

4. Egyptians.

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