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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 8(Chapter 18 The Odium of Sodium, Chapter 19 The Mythology of Geology, Chapter 20 The Soil Never Sets On).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 16?
(a) Purple Salt.
(b) Red Salt.
(c) Divided Between Worlds.
(d) The War Between the Salts.

2. Which Chinese river is known as the father of floods?
(a) The Green River.
(b) The Yellow River.
(c) The Yangez.
(d) The Yangtze.

3. What is the title of Chapter 6?
(a) Opening the Way for Others.
(b) Two Ports and the Prosciutto in Between.
(c) A Sprinkle of Salt Goes a Long Way.
(d) The Salt of the Earth.

4. Which was most likely the first civilization to realize salting food could preserve it?
(a) The Chinese.
(b) The Greeks.
(c) The Egyptians.
(d) The Romans.

5. What other country developed a sauce similar to Garum?
(a) China.
(b) Thailand.
(c) Vietnam.
(d) Japan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of sauce is Garum?

2. What fish did the Basque find was more valuable than whale meat?

3. What did Mattias Schleiden claim was the mark of all tyrannies?

4. What famous company did a man named Birdseye form?

5. Where did a group of speculators find salt deposits underground?

(see the answer key)

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