3. Who believed that if Britain lost its Newfoundland fishing ships based in Plymouth alone, it would be the greatest blow the country has ever been given?
(a) Sir Walter Raleigh.
(b) Christopher Columbus.
(c) John Smith.
(d) John Cabot.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. What was the name of the island that Thomas Croft and John Jay searched for in the Atlantic?
(a) Appat.
(b) Gran Canaria.
(c) Gough.
(d) Hy-Brasil.

12. Europe's best salt was supposed to have come from which country?
(a) Portugal.
(b) Britain.
(c) France.
(d) Spain.

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

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

15. 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 Panthalassic Ocean.
(c) The Proto-Caribbean Sea.
(d) The Chixiclub Sea,