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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Who conjectured that cod was named after a husk of seeds because the female holds so many eggs?
(a) Henry David Thoreau.
(b) Benjamin Franklin.
(c) Samuel Johnson.
(d) John Cabot.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color of the meat of a cod is the result of sluggish muscle tissue?

2. What commodity did Bartholomew Gosnold find in North America?

3. Who monopolized the Baltic herring trade and tried the same thing with dried cod in the fifteenth century?

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

5. What was the Northern European product called when winter fish is dried without salting?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why were New Englanders first drawn to the Caribbean in terms of trade?

2. How did Britain show flexibility in its colonialism with North America?

3. Where do the Basques live and how do they interpret their homeland?

4. Why did the cod trade relationship between Britain and Portugal deteriorate in the 16th century?

5. How did John Cabot and his brother die?

6. How did the Vikings survive the desolate landscapes of Greenland and Stoneland?

7. What was John Smith's relationship to cod fishing?

8. What type of ocean currents do cod prefer?

9. Why do cod spawn so many eggs?

10. What happened when New Englanders become entrepreneurs? How did this conflict with the intent of the British Crown?

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