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

2. 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) Benjamin Franklin.
(d) Samuel Johnson.

3. 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 Proto-Caribbean Sea.
(c) The Chixiclub Sea,
(d) The Tethys Sea.

4. The colonial governor of New Amsterdam wrote of six-foot _____ in 1649.
(a) Turtles.
(b) Cod.
(c) Crabs.
(d) Lobsters.

5. What are the best shore spaces for drying catch called?
(a) Fishing rooms.
(b) Sloops.
(c) Salt caves.
(d) Line shacks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the original name of John Cabot?

2. The word for fresh cod in French is ____.

3. What is cod pickled with in barrels?

4. What is the name of the long tube of air bladder in a cod that fills and adjusts swimming depth?

5. "In gadiform fish, evolution is seen in the _____."

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