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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I - A Fish Tale.

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) The Tethys Sea.
(b) The Proto-Caribbean Sea.
(c) The Panthalassic Ocean.
(d) The Chixiclub Sea,

2. John Cabot claimed what land for England?
(a) Massachusetts.
(b) Newfoundland.
(c) Maine.
(d) Nova Scotia.

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

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

5. The colonial governor of New Amsterdam wrote of six-foot _____ in 1649.
(a) Lobsters.
(b) Cod.
(c) Crabs.
(d) Turtles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the throat of the cod called?

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

3. What do humpback whales feed on?

4. Europe's best salt was supposed to have come from which country?

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

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