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

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

3. What was the premier French fishing port in Newfoundland in the early 16th century?
(a) La Rochelle.
(b) Le Grys.
(c) Bayonne.
(d) Le Cygne.

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

5. Who outlawed the Basque language?
(a) Juan Carlos.
(b) Archduke Ferdinand.
(c) Ricardo Sáenz de Ynestrillas Pérez.
(d) Francisco Franco.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which now-extinct bird would flock overhead and darken the sky in 16th century North America?

2. Which Spanish Basque city provided anchors and metal fittings with its ironworks and grew with the cod boom?

3. Jacques Cartier is credited for "discovering" the mouth of which river?

4. What is the throat of the cod called?

5. The colonial governor of New Amsterdam wrote of six-foot _____ in 1649.

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the Pilgrims finally become good at farming?

2. How did the Basques become known for preserving cod?

3. Why did the Royal Fishery accountant, John Collins, publish a book on salt in 1682?

4. Why do cod spawn so many eggs?

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

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

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

8. What happened in Grindavík, Iceland in 1532?

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

10. How does Pacific cod compare to Atlantic cod?

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