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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 10(Chapter 24 Ma, La, and Mao, Chapter 25 More Salt Than Fish, Chapter 26 Big Lake, Little Salt).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is the title of Chapter 10?
(a) The Leaving of Liverpool.
(b) The Hapsburg Pickle.
(c) The American Salt Wars.
(d) The German Sauerkraut.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Appert invent?

2. What was the French salt tax also known as?

3. How did the British create serious salt shortages during the American War for Independence?

4. What is the direct translation of Saltzburg?

5. What did the Kibbutz eventually turn into?

(see the answer key)

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