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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III - The Last Hunters.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the long tube of air bladder in a cod that fills and adjusts swimming depth?
(a) The balloon.
(b) The floater.
(c) The buoy.
(d) The sound.

2. What are cod called after the larval stage?
(a) Creepers.
(b) Spelders.
(c) Spawn.
(d) Juveniles.

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

4. What is considered a bread substitute in Iceland?
(a) Corn muffins.
(b) Herring.
(c) Crackers.
(d) Stockfish.

5. What stage of cod development was most successful in the Norwegian experiment with cod farming?
(a) Egg.
(b) Juvenile.
(c) Adult.
(d) Larvae.

Short Answer Questions

1. Nova Scotia fishermen looked for a red gravel floor favored by cod called _____.

2. In the 1780's, British medicine decided cod-liver oil was a remedy for _____.

3. What is the Anglo-Saxon word that means "a place that has salt"?

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

5. Cornwall is warmed by the _____.

(see the answer key)

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