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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 country helped the new China Republic to rebuild their salt industry?

2. What river did Gandhi lead a group to in 1930 to scrape up sea salt?

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

4. What was the name of the war Israel fought in 1948?

5. What is Sodium Chloride better known as?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to Cheshire salt?

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

3. What is unique about the Dead Sea?

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

5. How did the American War of Independence begin?

6. How was Tabasco invented?

7. What impact did Humphry Davy have on the salt industry?

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

9. How did Morton become the world's largest salt producer?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why is the Dead Sea so important to Israeli industry? Why could the Dead Sea soon disappear?

Essay Topic 2

What was Basque culture like before they discovered how important salt was? How did salt change the Basque way of life?

Essay Topic 3

How did salt help to develop European society? What problems did Europeans have before salt was readily available?

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