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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. Jacques Cartier is credited for "discovering" the mouth of which river?
(a) The Pinware River.
(b) The Mississippi.
(c) The Hudson.
(d) The St. Lawrence.

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 Chixiclub Sea,
(b) The Tethys Sea.
(c) The Panthalassic Ocean.
(d) The Proto-Caribbean Sea.

3. Who believed that if Britain lost its Newfoundland fishing ships based in Plymouth alone, it would be the greatest blow the country has ever been given?
(a) John Smith.
(b) Christopher Columbus.
(c) John Cabot.
(d) Sir Walter Raleigh.

4. What do humpback whales feed on?
(a) Diatoms.
(b) Seaweed.
(c) Krill.
(d) Plankton.

5. Who offered the English Puritans either Manhattan or Guiana as a place of refuge?
(a) The French.
(b) The Italians.
(c) The Dutch.
(d) The Germans.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who monopolized the Baltic herring trade and tried the same thing with dried cod in the fifteenth century?

2. What is the throat of the cod called?

3. 16th century salt was produced by _____.

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

5. Where is Pacific cod found?

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