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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 title of Chapter 13?

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

3. What group was the ruling class of Rome?

4. What was known as Cordona's main treasure?

5. In what way is Garum similar to soy sauce?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was salt in such high demand in Britain?

2. What influence has salt had on modern day language?

3. Why is cod a perfect fish for salting?

4. How did the Basques discover cod?

5. Why did pilgrims in New England rely so heavily on salt?

6. How did salt help in developing one of the world's first plumbing systems?

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

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

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

10. What did Marco Polo do while in Mongolia?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What importance have the following groups attached to salt?

1. Romans.

2. Greek philosophers.

3. Psychologists.

4. Egyptians.

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

What health problems can salt cause? How have countries tried to combat the health problems caused by too much salt?

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