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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does the word "Naumkeag" mean?
(a) Fishing place.
(b) Farming land.
(c) Mountain people.
(d) Running horses.

4. What was the French salt tax called?
(a) Franc sel.
(b) Sels tax.
(c) Gabelle.
(d) Gabargent.

5. In 1598, with whom were the Catholics at war?
(a) The Lutherans.
(b) The Huguenots.
(c) The Hanseatics.
(d) The Hussars.

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

7. In Great Britain since the nineteenth century, cod has meant ____.
(a) Joke or prank.
(b) Bridge.
(c) Government official.
(d) Dolt.

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

9. "In gadiform fish, evolution is seen in the _____."
(a) Eyes.
(b) Fins.
(c) Gills.
(d) Tails.

10. John Cabot claimed what land for England?
(a) Massachusetts.
(b) Newfoundland.
(c) Nova Scotia.
(d) Maine.

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

12. What is the scientific name for cod?
(a) Oncorhynchus tshawytscha.
(b) Pomoxis nigromaculatus.
(c) Gadus morhua.
(d) Mircopterus salmoides floridanus.

13. 16th century salt was produced by _____.
(a) Chemical extraction.
(b) Evaporation.
(c) Erosion.
(d) Mining.

14. What is stuffed cod stomach called in the Scottish Highlands?
(a) Whelp.
(b) Haggis.
(c) Float porridge.
(d) Liver-muggie.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The eating habits of cod are classified as _____.

3. Who was murdered in the Icelandic fishing station of Grindavík in 1532?

4. The colonial governor of New Amsterdam wrote of six-foot _____ in 1649.

5. What is the Basque language called?

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