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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the direct translation of Saltzburg?

2. What meat is Parma famous for producing?

3. How does one know if an English town was once a salt producing town?

4. What kind of sauce is Garum?

5. What is ketchup named after?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the policy known as common salt?

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

3. How did salt help the Swedes economically?

4. Why were the Celts viewed as fearsome warriors?

5. How did salt become the foundation of the commercial empire in Venice?

6. Why did the author become fascinated by salt?

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

8. What did Marco Polo do while in Mongolia?

9. In what way can American history be described as a constant struggle over salt?

10. How did the British make salt?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did the salt trade help to develop transport systems in Europe and America? How did countries use these trading systems during times of conflict?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss elements of the narrative structure; Exposition, conflict, complication, climax, resolution and conclusion. Do all the elements make for a logical and linear story? How does the story's structure express the book's themes?

Essay Topic 3

Why did cod become such an important source of food? How did the discovery of cod by the Europeans effect European industry?

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