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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II - Limits.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the only tropical cod that remains today?
(a) Whiting.
(b) Cusk.
(c) Hake.
(d) Bregmaceros.

2. What is the Anglo-Saxon word that means "a place that has salt"?
(a) Ville.
(b) Chester.
(c) Wich.
(d) Ham.

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

4. What company did Clarence Birdseye found in Gloucester?
(a) General Seafoods Company.
(b) Harbor Food Processing.
(c) Gorton's Seafood Company.
(d) Ocean Foods.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who backed Giovanni da Verrazzano on his travels?

2. What do New Englanders call smaller thin-shelled quahogs?

3. By 1918, which Maine city was building steel-hulled trawlers?

4. What is the throat of the cod called?

5. What is the name of the one freshwater cod?

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