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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 is the name of the only tropical cod that remains today?
(a) Cusk.
(b) Hake.
(c) Whiting.
(d) Bregmaceros.

2. What is the air bladder of the cod used for in industry?
(a) Fiberglass.
(b) Fishing line.
(c) Kevlar.
(d) Isinglass.

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

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

5. Who was sent to Guiana as a death sentence in the 16th century?
(a) Marco Polo.
(b) Juan Martinez.
(c) Thomas Huxley.
(d) John Cabot.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. John Smith renamed _____ "New England".

3. What is stuffed cod stomach called in the Scottish Highlands?

4. Who conjectured that cod was named after a husk of seeds because the female holds so many eggs?

5. What was the Northern European product called when winter fish is dried without salting?

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