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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 9(Chapter 21 Salt and the Great Soul, Chapter 22 Not Looking Back, Chapter 23 The Last Day of Zigong).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was the payment the Roman soldiers received called a salary?
(a) They were sometimes paid in salt.
(b) They used their money to buy salt for their families.
(c) They celebrated their salary with a heavily salted meal.
(d) They often saved up their money to buy salt mines.

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

3. What is the name of the process in which the Japanese ferment beans in earthen pots?
(a) Oxidization.
(b) Acidization.
(c) Chloride fermentation.
(d) Lactic acid fermentation.

4. What county is the author talking about at the beginning of Chapter 9?
(a) Britain.
(b) France.
(c) Germany.
(d) Sweden.

5. Which of the following Italian cities flourished after the fall of Rome?
(a) Florence.
(b) Naples.
(c) Milan.
(d) Venice.

Short Answer Questions

1. What country does the author return to in Chapter 23?

2. What Irish dish became the official meat of the British navy?

3. In which part of the state did Israel set up a salt works?

4. What two groups was Rome divided between?

5. What is the main town of Merseyside?

(see the answer key)

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