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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What meat were the Celts best known for?
(a) Tartar steak.
(b) Beef steak.
(c) Bacon.
(d) Ham.

2. What did the Parma locals feed their pigs?
(a) Cheese.
(b) Chocolate.
(c) ham.
(d) Butter.

3. In which state did Jefferson live?
(a) New York.
(b) California.
(c) Virginia.
(d) North Carolina.

4. What vegetable did the French peasants serve lean blubber with?
(a) Peas.
(b) Spinach.
(c) Cabbage.
(d) Potatoes.

5. What had to be done to English bacon before one cooked it?
(a) Scrub with a cloth.
(b) Hand it out to dry.
(c) Cover it with egg yolk.
(d) Dip it in water.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Parma locals combine milk curds with to make their cheese?

2. Which Chinese river is known as the father of floods?

3. What is the title of Chapter 10?

4. What is the name of the national dish of Poland?

5. Which of the following Italian cities flourished after the fall of Rome?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the people of Parma make their cheese?

2. Why were the Basques different from other Europeans?

3. Why did pilgrims in New England rely so heavily on salt?

4. How did salt help the Swedes economically?

5. How did Christopher Columbus cause the decline of Venice?

6. What was the policy known as common salt?

7. Why was salt in such high demand in Britain?

8. Why did the author become fascinated by salt?

9. What did Marco Polo do while in Mongolia?

10. How did salt help in developing one of the world's first plumbing systems?

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