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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 do the French age their cheese in?

2. What two stones does the author say the rock was a cross between?

3. What did the Romans call the salt they gave out to everybody?

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

5. Why did the Romans used to salt their greens?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did salt help the Swedes economically?

2. What did Marco Polo do while in Mongolia?

3. How did the Basques discover cod?

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

5. How did ketchup develop into tomato ketchup?

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

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

8. What was Garum?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Why is the Dead Sea so important to Israeli industry? Why could the Dead Sea soon disappear?

Essay Topic 3

Examine the construction of Kurlansky's argument.

1. How does he introduce his ideas?

2. How does he construct his ideas to come to logical conclusion?

3. What weaknesses and strengths can you identify in Kurlansky's argument?

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