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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 were leaders of the trawler industry and chip shop guilds called?
(a) Fish industrial guilds.
(b) The cod parliament.
(c) Chip choppers.
(d) Fish fryer associations.

2. In 1986, the French still had the outposts of St. Pierre and Miquelon when Canada closed _____ to the Portuguese and Spanish.
(a) St. Mary's.
(b) St. John's.
(c) St. Thomas's.
(d) St. Augustine's.

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

4. Today, fish sticks are usually _____.
(a) Pacific pollock.
(b) Haddock.
(c) Ling cod.
(d) Pacific cod.

5. Cod are supposedly good for farming because of a _____ social structure.
(a) Nomadic.
(b) Hierarchical.
(c) Solitary.
(d) Herding.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who backed Giovanni da Verrazzano on his travels?

2. After _____ death in 1975, every sector of the Spanish economy attracted investments and was being modernized.

3. Which fish in the Gulf of Mexico is a by-catch of shrimp?

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

5. Where is Pacific cod found?

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