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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Clarence Birdseye was passing the winter in _____ when he discovered how to freeze food.
(a) Alaska.
(b) Greenland.
(c) Iceland.
(d) Labrador.

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

3. Who were infamous on the Grand Banks for the harshness of their working conditions?
(a) The British.
(b) The French.
(c) The Portuguese.
(d) The Spanish.

4. What is it called when a net is dragged along the ocean floor?
(a) Deep sounding.
(b) Crabbing.
(c) Skim dragging.
(d) Bottom trawling.

5. Today, fish sticks are usually _____.
(a) Ling cod.
(b) Pacific pollock.
(c) Pacific cod.
(d) Haddock.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, what is the most notable sport the Basques are known for?

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

3. What was the forerunner of sonar?

4. The 19th-century debate over longlining seemed to have been fueled by _____.

5. Who conjectured that cod was named after a husk of seeds because the female holds so many eggs?

(see the answer key)

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