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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did one person bring onto Avery Island to farm?
(a) British wheat.
(b) Virginian tobacco.
(c) Louisiana Cotton.
(d) Mexican chili peppers.

2. What did Sarah Hale discover could preserve fish?
(a) Icing.
(b) Frosting.
(c) Oiling.
(d) Salting.

3. What river did Gandhi lead a group to in 1930 to scrape up sea salt?
(a) Dehli.
(b) Juniper.
(c) Lahore.
(d) Dandi.

4. What did Union forces destroy in West Virginia in 1862?
(a) The salt works.
(b) The tobacco plantation.
(c) The steel works.
(d) The Virginia university.

5. Who believed that the Dead Sea would become a source of mineral wealth?
(a) Zionists.
(b) Jesuits.
(c) Missionaries.
(d) Arabs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who led the popular movement against British salt polices?

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

3. Which of the following type of fish is not commonly salted?

4. What religious group settled in the state of Utah?

5. Which country consumes the most salt?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did a man called Appert destroy the salt industry?

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

3. What problem does the Dead Sea have?

4. How did Britain change the salt industry in India?

5. How did the French deal with salt smugglers?

6. How did the American War of Independence begin?

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

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

9. What did Birdseye discover?

10. How was Tabasco invented?

(see the answer keys)

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