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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. Which salted dish became particularly popular throughout Europe?
(a) Chutney.
(b) Sauerkraut.
(c) Pasties.
(d) Kim-chi.

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

3. What is the direct translation of Via Salaria?
(a) Salt river.
(b) Salt path.
(c) Salt road.
(d) Salt freeway.

4. What is the title of Chapter 15?
(a) Popping to the Mine.
(b) The Creation of a New World.
(c) The Dean of Salt.
(d) Preseving Independence.

5. Who is known as the most famous of Genoese sailors?
(a) Christopher Columbus.
(b) Fernando Torres.
(c) Marco Polo.
(d) Arraggi Sacchi.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Veleia have that helped in the production of salt?

2. What the area of Bohemia now called?

3. What two groups was Rome divided between?

4. What is the title of Chapter 5?

5. What European language group is Basque related to?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way was meat an essential part of central Europe rather than salt?

2. Why were the Basques different from other Europeans?

3. Why was the castle of Cardona built on a mountainside?

4. How did the Basques earn their fortune before the discovery of salt?

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

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

7. How did the Basques discover cod?

8. What did the Japanese used to believe about salt?

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

10. How did salt help the Swedes economically?

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