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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What form of resistance did Gandhi develop while in jail?
(a) Immovable resistance.
(b) Non-violent resistant.
(c) Violent resistance.
(d) Religious resistance.

2. What is the name of the island the Louisiana salt works owners bought?
(a) Mormon Island.
(b) Ellis Island.
(c) Dean Island.
(d) Avery Island.

3. What was name of the sauce that McIhenny invented?
(a) Ketchup.
(b) Worcester.
(c) HP.
(d) Tabasco.

4. What country was Matthias Schleiden from?
(a) Austria.
(b) Germany.
(c) France.
(d) Poland.

5. What was the most famous brand of sea salt from India before the British came?
(a) Burra.
(b) Orissa.
(c) Baltic.
(d) Ruby.

6. Which country are said to be the largest consumers of salt in the world?
(a) China.
(b) Britain.
(c) India.
(d) Japan.

7. What is the name of the popular salted salmon dish?
(a) Cox.
(b) Nimble.
(c) Gumbo.
(d) Lox.

8. In what part of the USA was oil discovered?
(a) The West.
(b) The North.
(c) The South.
(d) The East.

9. Which county colonized India for hundreds of years?
(a) Germany.
(b) France.
(c) Sweden.
(d) Great Britain.

10. In which English town does Chapter 20 take place?
(a) Leighton Buzzard.
(b) Chesire.
(c) Bury.
(d) Aylesbury.

11. What was Jean Baptiste Colbert's role in the French government?
(a) Deputy minister.
(b) Foreign minister.
(c) Primeminister.
(d) Finance minister.

12. What did soldiers and salt workers set up next to the salt works?
(a) A housing estate.
(b) A kibbutz.
(c) A deli.
(d) A church.

13. Whose work did Gandhi read in jail while in India?
(a) Thoreau.
(b) Camus.
(c) Sartre.
(d) Robideaux.

14. What meat do the Chinese consume the most?
(a) Beef.
(b) Lamb.
(c) Pork.
(d) Duck.

15. Which fish are the Swedish salted licorice candies shaped like?
(a) Gull.
(b) Robin.
(c) Herring.
(d) Bluebird.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 16?

2. Where is the one place salted meats have survived?

3. What did Appert invent?

4. What was the French salt tax also known as?

5. On which continent has salt consumption almost halved?

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