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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Who was the father of Erik the Red?
(a) Thorwald.
(b) Cnut the Great.
(c) Brodir of Man
(d) Leif Erickson.

6. What is cod pickled with in barrels?
(a) Vinegar.
(b) Beer.
(c) Brine.
(d) Wine.

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

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

9. What did the Pilgrims fail to bring to North America that would aid in their survival?
(a) Medicines.
(b) Building tools.
(c) Fishing tackle.
(d) Wool.

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

11. From Newfoundland to southern New England, there is a series of shallow areas called _____.
(a) Reefs.
(b) Shoals.
(c) Pools.
(d) Banks.

12. 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 Tethys Sea.
(c) The Proto-Caribbean Sea.
(d) The Panthalassic Ocean.

13. Who was murdered in the Icelandic fishing station of Grindavík in 1532?
(a) John Cabot.
(b) John the Broad.
(c) John Smith.
(d) Erik the Red.

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What are the best shore spaces for drying catch called?

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

4. Which Spanish Basque city provided anchors and metal fittings with its ironworks and grew with the cod boom?

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

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