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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. What famous company did a man named Birdseye form?

2. Which of the following type of fish is not commonly salted?

3. What ocean did people originally think the Dead Sea was part of?

4. In what town was China salt production centered?

5. What did one person bring onto Avery Island to farm?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is unique about the Dead Sea?

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

3. How was Tabasco invented?

4. How did the Americans try to combat the British blockade?

5. Why do people combine salt and sugar?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What importance have the following groups attached to salt?

1. Romans.

2. Greek philosophers.

3. Psychologists.

4. Egyptians.

Essay Topic 2

How were the following countries important in the development of salt?

1. China.

2. Britain.

3. USA.

4. Italy.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss elements of the narrative structure; Exposition, conflict, complication, climax, resolution and conclusion. Do all the elements make for a logical and linear story? How does the story's structure express the book's themes?

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