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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. Which Spanish Basque city provided anchors and metal fittings with its ironworks and grew with the cod boom?
(a) Balboa.
(b) Bilbao.
(c) Lido.
(d) St. Michelle.

2. Where were most explorers trying to get to in the 16th century?
(a) Russia.
(b) Asia.
(c) California.
(d) South America.

3. What were wind-dried whiting wetted with seawater to give them a special taste called?
(a) Salthake.
(b) Speldings.
(c) Kippers.
(d) Finnan haddie.

4. If hauled up from freezing water, cod will _____ because of a protein they produce.
(a) Implode.
(b) Turn to jelly.
(c) Explode.
(d) Crystallize.

5. What was the name of the island that Thomas Croft and John Jay searched for in the Atlantic?
(a) Appat.
(b) Gran Canaria.
(c) Hy-Brasil.
(d) Gough.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are cod called after the larval stage?

2. In 1598, with whom were the Catholics at war?

3. Where is Pacific cod found?

4. In Great Britain since the nineteenth century, cod has meant ____.

5. What is the throat of the cod called?

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