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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4 Summary (Chapter 7 Friday's Salt, Chapter 8 A Nordic Dream, Chapter 9 A Nordic Dream).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 5?
(a) Foolish Wanderings in the Dead Sea.
(b) Two Ports and the Prosciutto in Between.
(c) Salting it Away in the Adriatic.
(d) Floating on the water.

2. What food is it thought that Marco Polo introduced to Italy?
(a) Chocolate.
(b) Pasta.
(c) Pizza.
(d) Olive oil.

3. What did Veleia have that helped in the production of salt?
(a) An underground salt spring.
(b) A salt lake.
(c) A salt mine.
(d) A salt montain.

4. How is Yi Dun believed to have made salt?
(a) By soaking the saltstone in drinking water.
(b) By boiling brine in iron pans.
(c) By leaving brine out in the sun.
(d) By chipping the salt stone into small pieces.

5. For which Italian city did the Barcelonans buy imported salt?
(a) Genoa.
(b) Florence.
(c) Parma.
(d) Rome.

Short Answer Questions

1. What fish needs to be salted immediately or it will go bad?

2. What vegetable did the French peasants serve lean blubber with?

3. What is the direct translation of Saltzburg?

4. What did the Parma locals feed their pigs?

5. How do the Chinese refer to the system of harvesting the square crystals on the surface of the water?

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