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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 26?

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

3. What is Appert's nationality?

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

5. What meat do the Chinese consume the most?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the American War of Independence begin?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What happened to Cheshire salt?

9. How was Tabasco invented?

10. Why do people combine salt and sugar?

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 did the salt trade help to develop transport systems in Europe and America? How did countries use these trading systems during times of conflict?

Essay Topic 3

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

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