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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What were lobsters considered to be by the Pilgrims?

2. What does the word "Naumkeag" mean?

3. Who offered the English Puritans either Manhattan or Guiana as a place of refuge?

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

5. Sterling", according to Kurlansky, means what?

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