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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 fish needs to be salted immediately or it will go bad?
(a) Sole.
(b) Herring.
(c) Cod.
(d) Trout.

2. Who is known as the most famous of Genoese sailors?
(a) Arraggi Sacchi.
(b) Christopher Columbus.
(c) Fernando Torres.
(d) Marco Polo.

3. What is ketchup named after?
(a) A British salt miner.
(b) A Chinese philosopher.
(c) An Indonesian fish.
(d) A Czech engineer.

4. In what way is Garum similar to soy sauce?
(a) It was used as a medicine.
(b) It contained soy beans.
(c) It was a condiment used to salt food.
(d) It is a black liquid.

5. What culture is the author talking about at the beginning of Chapter 8?
(a) Swedish.
(b) Norwegian.
(c) British.
(d) German.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following countries did the Hapsburgs not rule over?

2. Who did the Basques learn shipbuilding from?

3. Which country does the author write about in Chapter 12?

4. What animal did the Celts prize over all others?

5. What two groups was Rome divided between?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the British make salt?

2. What was the policy known as common salt?

3. In what way was meat an essential part of central Europe rather than salt?

4. How did the people of Parma make their ham?

5. How did Salzburg cause the Salt War?

6. How did salt become one of the first mediums of exchange?

7. Why is cod a perfect fish for salting?

8. What was Garum?

9. Why was salt in such high demand in Britain?

10. Why did the author become fascinated by salt?

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