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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I - A Fish Tale.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the name of the tropical body of water that once ran around the earth east-west and connected all the oceans?
(a) The Panthalassic Ocean.
(b) The Chixiclub Sea,
(c) The Tethys Sea.
(d) The Proto-Caribbean Sea.

3. Who conjectured that cod was named after a husk of seeds because the female holds so many eggs?
(a) John Cabot.
(b) Henry David Thoreau.
(c) Samuel Johnson.
(d) Benjamin Franklin.

4. Who monopolized the Baltic herring trade and tried the same thing with dried cod in the fifteenth century?
(a) The Huns.
(b) The Hanseatics.
(c) The Vikings.
(d) The Turks.

5. Who backed Giovanni da Verrazzano on his travels?
(a) Italian pottery makers.
(b) Portuguese salt merchants.
(c) French silk merchants.
(d) British whalers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What commodity did Bartholomew Gosnold find in North America?

2. What is the name of the one freshwater cod?

3. What does the word "Naumkeag" mean?

4. Where was the Puritan minister, Francis Higgenson, from?

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

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