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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What vegetable did the French peasants serve lean blubber with?
(a) Potatoes.
(b) Peas.
(c) Spinach.
(d) Cabbage.

2. What is ketchup named after?
(a) A British salt miner.
(b) An Indonesian fish.
(c) A Chinese philosopher.
(d) A Czech engineer.

3. What European language group is Basque related to?
(a) Slavic.
(b) None.
(c) Latin.
(d) Germanic.

4. In which country is Salzburg a town?
(a) Switzerland.
(b) Germany.
(c) France.
(d) Austria.

5. What food product was particularly popular in Rome and abroad?
(a) Salted olive.
(b) Pickled gherkin.
(c) Salted fish.
(d) Pickled eggs.

6. What is the author discussing at the beginning of Chapter 11?
(a) Salt mines.
(b) The great rivers.
(c) Gold mines.
(d) The great lakes.

7. What culture is the author talking about at the beginning of Chapter 8?
(a) British.
(b) Swedish.
(c) German.
(d) Norwegian.

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

9. How do the Chinese refer to the system of harvesting the square crystals on the surface of the water?
(a) Carving and holing.
(b) Filing and combing.
(c) Dragging and gathering.
(d) Chipping and licking.

10. How is Yi Dun believed to have made salt?
(a) By leaving brine out in the sun.
(b) By boiling brine in iron pans.
(c) By soaking the saltstone in drinking water.
(d) By chipping the salt stone into small pieces.

11. What is the main town of Merseyside?
(a) Cheshire.
(b) Wallasey.
(c) Chester.
(d) Liverpool.

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

13. What is the name of the national dish of Poland?
(a) Tartar.
(b) Bigos.
(c) Plethora.
(d) Nakladany Hermelin.

14. What did Veleia have that helped in the production of salt?
(a) A salt lake.
(b) An underground salt spring.
(c) A salt mine.
(d) A salt montain.

15. Why were dead bodies so important to the Egyptians?
(a) They were a reminder of how important life is.
(b) They were the vessel which connected life to the afterlife.
(c) They were full of salt.
(d) They needed the bones for sculptures.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. For which Italian city did the Barcelonans buy imported salt?

3. Who did the Basques learn shipbuilding from?

4. Why was cod such an important find?

5. What group was the ruling class of Rome?

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