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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 only tropical cod that remains today?
(a) Cusk.
(b) Bregmaceros.
(c) Hake.
(d) Whiting.

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

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

4. What was the Northern European product called when winter fish is dried without salting?
(a) Ling cod.
(b) Smelting.
(c) Kippering.
(d) Stockfish.

5. What does "Hanse" mean in Middle High German?
(a) Ship.
(b) Higher power.
(c) Fellowship.
(d) Cod.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the best shore spaces for drying catch called?

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. Where were slaves purchased with cured cod?

4. Which now-extinct bird would flock overhead and darken the sky in 16th century North America?

5. What is cod pickled with in barrels?

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