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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the throat of the cod called?
(a) The tongue.
(b) The gullet.
(c) The tonsil.
(d) The gargle.

2. What is a growth that is produced from the nitrates being stirred up by conflicting currents?
(a) Telonemia.
(b) Krill.
(c) Phytoplankton.
(d) Diatoms.

3. Who believed that if Britain lost its Newfoundland fishing ships based in Plymouth alone, it would be the greatest blow the country has ever been given?
(a) Sir Walter Raleigh.
(b) John Cabot.
(c) Christopher Columbus.
(d) John Smith.

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

5. What do New Englanders call smaller thin-shelled quahogs?
(a) Mud bugs.
(b) Steamers.
(c) Barnacles.
(d) Sandies.

6. Who offered the English Puritans either Manhattan or Guiana as a place of refuge?
(a) The Germans.
(b) The Italians.
(c) The Dutch.
(d) The French.

7. Jacques Cartier is credited for "discovering" the mouth of which river?
(a) The Hudson.
(b) The St. Lawrence.
(c) The Mississippi.
(d) The Pinware River.

8. Where was John Cabot born?
(a) Bristol.
(b) Milan.
(c) Genoa.
(d) Iberia.

9. What commodity did Bartholomew Gosnold find in North America?
(a) Corn.
(b) Sassafras.
(c) Gold.
(d) Potatoes.

10. Sterling", according to Kurlansky, means what?
(a) Of assured value.
(b) 100% silver.
(c) Pound.
(d) Commonly available.

11. Where were slaves purchased with cured cod?
(a) New Zealand.
(b) Sudan.
(c) Tanzania.
(d) West Africa.

12. What was the premier French fishing port in Newfoundland in the early 16th century?
(a) Le Cygne.
(b) Le Grys.
(c) Bayonne.
(d) La Rochelle.

13. What are the best shore spaces for drying catch called?
(a) Salt caves.
(b) Fishing rooms.
(c) Line shacks.
(d) Sloops.

14. What is the name of the one freshwater cod?
(a) Haddock.
(b) Pollock.
(c) Burbot.
(d) Grayling.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the tropical body of water that once ran around the earth east-west and connected all the oceans?

2. John Smith renamed _____ "New England".

3. What is cod pickled with in barrels?

4. What was the name of the island that Thomas Croft and John Jay searched for in the Atlantic?

5. What is the scientific name for cod?

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