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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. For which Italian city did the Barcelonans buy imported salt?
(a) Rome.
(b) Parma.
(c) Florence.
(d) Genoa.

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

3. Which emperor lead the Romans to victory against the Celts?
(a) Caesar.
(b) Pontius.
(c) Augustus.
(d) Circero.

4. What prevents salt from absorbing into meat?
(a) Bone.
(b) Blood.
(c) Fat.
(d) Condensation.

5. Which of the following did the Chinese not invent?
(a) Papermaking.
(b) The radio.
(c) The compass.
(d) Gunpowder.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 13?

2. What Irish dish became the official meat of the British navy?

3. What did the Egyptians mix with Brine to make Oxalme?

4. What turns the brine into salt crystals?

5. What meat is Parma famous for producing?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the Chinese develop soy sauce?

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

3. How did Salzburg cause the Salt War?

4. How did salt become one of the first mediums of exchange?

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

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

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

8. How did the Basques discover cod?

9. What was Garum?

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

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