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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 were lobsters considered to be by the Pilgrims?
(a) Sea monsters.
(b) Delicacies.
(c) Pests.
(d) Pets.

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

3. What was the original name of John Cabot?
(a) Jean Cabotte.
(b) Juan Cabota.
(c) Giovanni Caboto.
(d) Hans Kabut.

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

5. Which now-extinct bird would flock overhead and darken the sky in 16th century North America?
(a) Lorikeets.
(b) Mariana mallards.
(c) White-winged sandpipers.
(d) Passenger pigeons.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where were most explorers trying to get to in the 16th century?

2. What is the throat of the cod called?

3. Who was sent to Guiana as a death sentence in the 16th century?

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

5. Europe's best salt was supposed to have come from which country?

(see the answer key)

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