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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 does the Dutch word "schrode" mean?
(a) Strip.
(b) Fish.
(c) Stick.
(d) Chip.

2. What Nova Scotia fish product was heavily salted on schooners, then dried on flakes along a rocky coastline?
(a) Gloucester gold.
(b) The Lunenburg cure.
(c) Salt ling.
(d) Hákarl.

3. Which boat was invented on the Pacific to deal with rough seas and haul in bigger catches?
(a) The stern trawler.
(b) The otter trawler.
(c) The three-mast schooner.
(d) The clipper.

4. What was the forerunner of sonar?
(a) The sonometer.
(b) The phonometer.
(c) The echometer.
(d) The chronometer.

5. Which international organization met in 1973 to expand ocean sovereignty?
(a) The Northern Seas Alliance.
(b) NATO.
(c) International Fisheries Council.
(d) The UN Seabed Committee.

Short Answer Questions

1. Watertight ship holds with holes for circulating seawater to keep fish alive were called _____.

2. Which schooner is now tied up as part of a maritime museum in Nova Scotia?

3. Nova Scotia fishermen looked for a red gravel floor favored by cod called _____.

4. Who was the longtime director of Iceland's Marine Research Institute and one of the negotiators during the third Cod War?

5. What were sail-powered draggers called?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the British respond to being asked to change their preference for fried cod as the cod catch continued to decline?

2. Why did Icelandic Coast Guard vessels withstand enemy attacks in the second cod war?

3. Why did President Harry Truman impose protected zones for American fisheries?

4. What happened to many British and German trawlers during the second Cod War?

5. How did the invention of filleting machinery change New England's cod fishing industry?

6. What were the Grandmother messages of 1928?

7. Why do fishermen have comparatively high accident rates?

8. Why did Icelanders rejoice in the addition of the 12-mile limit zone around their country?

9. What served as buoys and what were they used for in early cod fishing?

10. How were the Icelandic Coast Guard ships during the Cod Wars armed and manned?

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