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

2. What is the main town of Merseyside?

3. What food is it thought that Marco Polo introduced to Italy?

4. What kind of material did the Chinese use for the pipes of the first plumbing systems?

5. What prevents salt from absorbing into meat?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did ketchup develop into tomato ketchup?

2. Why is cod a perfect fish for salting?

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

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

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

6. What did Marco Polo do while in Mongolia?

7. How did the British make salt?

8. How did Salzburg cause the Salt War?

9. How did the Ventian government maximize their profits from the salt trade?

10. How did the Chinese develop soy sauce?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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