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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 is the title of Chapter 16?

2. What is the name of the canal the Americans built on New York to transport salt?

3. What was Jean Baptiste Colbert's role in the French government?

4. What started developing all over England that caused problems to brine production?

5. What is Sodium Chloride better known as?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happened to Cheshire salt?

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

4. Why have people decreased their salt intake?

5. How did Britain enforce the new salt laws?

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

7. How did the American War of Independence begin?

8. Why do people combine salt and sugar?

9. Why did the French hate salt taxes so much?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why was Humphry Davy in the development of salt? What problems has Davy's discovery caused?

Essay Topic 2

What importance have the following groups attached to salt?

1. Romans.

2. Greek philosophers.

3. Psychologists.

4. Egyptians.

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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