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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color of the meat of a cod is the result of sluggish muscle tissue?
(a) Pink.
(b) Gray.
(c) White.
(d) Yellow.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What do humpback whales feed on?
(a) Plankton.
(b) Diatoms.
(c) Krill.
(d) Seaweed.

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

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

13. The word for fresh cod in French is ____.
(a) Cot.
(b) Cambraid.
(c) Cabillaud.
(d) Caude.

14. What is the Basque language called?
(a) Latinia.
(b) Basquian.
(c) Euskera.
(d) Esperanza.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did the Pilgrims fail to bring to North America that would aid in their survival?

3. From Newfoundland to southern New England, there is a series of shallow areas called _____.

4. Who was the father of Erik the Red?

5. In Great Britain since the nineteenth century, cod has meant ____.

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