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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 7( Chapter 16 The War between the Salts, Chapter 17 Red Salt).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Sodium Chloride better known as?
(a) Sniffing salt.
(b) Cooking salt.
(c) Body salt.
(d) Table salt.

2. What is the name of the canal the Americans built on New York to transport salt?
(a) The Erie.
(b) The Amsterdam.
(c) The Cod.
(d) The Weener.

3. What Irish dish became the official meat of the British navy?
(a) Corned beef.
(b) Tartar steak.
(c) Cure ham.
(d) Danish bacon.

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

5. What is the name of the island the Louisiana salt works owners bought?
(a) Mormon Island.
(b) Ellis Island.
(c) Dean Island.
(d) Avery Island.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following industries was one of the cornerstones of the Roman economy?

2. What is the title of Chapter 6?

3. What is the main town of Merseyside?

4. Who is known as the most famous of Genoese sailors?

5. Which of the following countries did not go to America to find salt?

(see the answer key)

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