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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 does sodium become if one isolates the chemical chlorine?

2. In which English town does Chapter 20 take place?

3. What did people find in England while looking for salt deposits?

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

5. What is the title of Chapter 17?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is unique about the Dead Sea?

2. How did the Dead Sea become a health spa?

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

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

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

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

7. How did Morton become the world's largest salt producer?

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

9. What did Birdseye discover?

10. How did the American War of Independence begin?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the construction of Kurlansky's argument.

1. How does he introduce his ideas?

2. How does he construct his ideas to come to logical conclusion?

3. What weaknesses and strengths can you identify in Kurlansky's argument?

Essay Topic 2

How did Venice develop into a center for salt trading? How did they maximize their profits and in what way did this lead to their eventual demise?

Essay Topic 3

How did salt help to develop European society? What problems did Europeans have before salt was readily available?

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