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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 do Americans mostly use their salt for?

2. What color was the brine the settlers in San Francisco took from the sea before the made it into salt?

3. Whose work did Gandhi read in jail while in India?

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

5. Which country are said to be the largest consumers of salt in the world?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What happened to Cheshire salt?

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

5. How did Britain enforce the new salt laws?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Why is salt essential to our diet? What problems can too much salt in our diets cause?

Essay Topic 3

Why did cod become such an important source of food? How did the discovery of cod by the Europeans effect European industry?

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