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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III - The Last Hunters.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the island that Thomas Croft and John Jay searched for in the Atlantic?
(a) Hy-Brasil.
(b) Gough.
(c) Gran Canaria.
(d) Appat.

2. What does not grow native to Iceland?
(a) Trees.
(b) Vines.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Grass.

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

4. In Peru, Clarence Birdseye found a way to covert crushed remains of sugar cane into _____.
(a) Paint.
(b) Cloth.
(c) Dog food.
(d) Paper.

5. What were thick rubber gloves with cotton lining that fishermen wore called?
(a) Nippers.
(b) Skimmers.
(c) Mitts.
(d) Stiffs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a growth that is produced from the nitrates being stirred up by conflicting currents?

2. What is the name of the tropical body of water that once ran around the earth east-west and connected all the oceans?

3. What was the French salt tax called?

4. What is happening to younger cod that suggests their habits have changed?

5. What does the phrase "magnimity imported" mean in the language of the southern New England coast?

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