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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 famous drilling technique became the most advance drilling technique for seven or eight centuries?
(a) Percussion drilling.
(b) Capo drilling.
(c) Depth drilling.
(d) Hotrod drilling.

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

3. How did the salt wars start?
(a) Satzburg refused to sell salt to foreigners.
(b) Salzburg destroyed their salt mines.
(c) Salzburg closed their borders.
(d) Salzburg tried to undercut their salt prices.

4. Which of the following Italian cities flourished after the fall of Rome?
(a) Milan.
(b) Venice.
(c) Florence.
(d) Naples.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What county is the author talking about at the beginning of Chapter 9?

2. Which Spanish town does the author mention in this section?

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

4. What is the title of Chapter 15?

5. Which continent did the Vikings go to in search of cod?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the Chinese make salt in 800 BC.

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

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

4. Why were the Basques different from other Europeans?

5. Why is cod a perfect fish for salting?

6. Why were the Celts viewed as fearsome warriors?

7. How did the Chinese develop soy sauce?

8. How did the people of Parma make their ham?

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

10. What did Marco Polo do while in Mongolia?

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