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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. John Cabot claimed what land for England?
(a) Maine.
(b) Newfoundland.
(c) Massachusetts.
(d) Nova Scotia.

2. The word for fresh cod in French is ____.
(a) Cot.
(b) Cabillaud.
(c) Caude.
(d) Cambraid.

3. What is the name of the long tube of air bladder in a cod that fills and adjusts swimming depth?
(a) The buoy.
(b) The sound.
(c) The balloon.
(d) The floater.

4. What did the Pilgrims fail to bring to North America that would aid in their survival?
(a) Wool.
(b) Fishing tackle.
(c) Medicines.
(d) Building tools.

5. Who offered the English Puritans either Manhattan or Guiana as a place of refuge?
(a) The Dutch.
(b) The French.
(c) The Italians.
(d) The Germans.

6. From Newfoundland to southern New England, there is a series of shallow areas called _____.
(a) Banks.
(b) Shoals.
(c) Reefs.
(d) Pools.

7. What is stuffed cod stomach called in the Scottish Highlands?
(a) Whelp.
(b) Liver-muggie.
(c) Haggis.
(d) Float porridge.

8. What is the Anglo-Saxon word that means "a place that has salt"?
(a) Wich.
(b) Ville.
(c) Ham.
(d) Chester.

9. What was the French salt tax called?
(a) Sels tax.
(b) Gabelle.
(c) Gabargent.
(d) Franc sel.

10. What is the scientific name for cod?
(a) Mircopterus salmoides floridanus.
(b) Oncorhynchus tshawytscha.
(c) Pomoxis nigromaculatus.
(d) Gadus morhua.

11. Who outlawed the Basque language?
(a) Juan Carlos.
(b) Francisco Franco.
(c) Archduke Ferdinand.
(d) Ricardo Sáenz de Ynestrillas Pérez.

12. What is the name of the only tropical cod that remains today?
(a) Hake.
(b) Cusk.
(c) Whiting.
(d) Bregmaceros.

13. What color of the meat of a cod is the result of sluggish muscle tissue?
(a) White.
(b) Pink.
(c) Gray.
(d) Yellow.

14. Europe's best salt was supposed to have come from which country?
(a) France.
(b) Spain.
(c) Portugal.
(d) Britain.

15. What is a growth that is produced from the nitrates being stirred up by conflicting currents?
(a) Krill.
(b) Telonemia.
(c) Phytoplankton.
(d) Diatoms.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the word "Naumkeag" mean?

2. Who was murdered in the Icelandic fishing station of Grindavík in 1532?

3. Where were most explorers trying to get to in the 16th century?

4. What do New Englanders call smaller thin-shelled quahogs?

5. What were wind-dried whiting wetted with seawater to give them a special taste called?

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