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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where were most explorers trying to get to in the 16th century?
(a) South America.
(b) California.
(c) Russia.
(d) Asia.

2. What was the Northern European product called when winter fish is dried without salting?
(a) Kippering.
(b) Stockfish.
(c) Ling cod.
(d) Smelting.

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

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 throat of the cod called?
(a) The tonsil.
(b) The gullet.
(c) The tongue.
(d) The gargle.

6. Who monopolized the Baltic herring trade and tried the same thing with dried cod in the fifteenth century?
(a) The Huns.
(b) The Hanseatics.
(c) The Vikings.
(d) The Turks.

7. What were wind-dried whiting wetted with seawater to give them a special taste called?
(a) Salthake.
(b) Finnan haddie.
(c) Kippers.
(d) Speldings.

8. 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 Proto-Caribbean Sea.
(b) The Chixiclub Sea,
(c) The Tethys Sea.
(d) The Panthalassic Ocean.

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

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

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

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

13. If hauled up from freezing water, cod will _____ because of a protein they produce.
(a) Turn to jelly.
(b) Crystallize.
(c) Implode.
(d) Explode.

14. In Great Britain since the nineteenth century, cod has meant ____.
(a) Joke or prank.
(b) Dolt.
(c) Bridge.
(d) Government official.

15. Where were slaves purchased with cured cod?
(a) West Africa.
(b) Sudan.
(c) New Zealand.
(d) Tanzania.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who was the father of Erik the Red?

4. In 1598, with whom were the Catholics at war?

5. What is the air bladder of the cod used for in industry?

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