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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III - The Last Hunters.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In an otter trawl, the bottom opening is maintained by a chain made more mobile by metal _____.
(a) Casings.
(b) Bobbins.
(c) Levers.
(d) Wheels.

2. What 1901 convention establishing the three-mile limit was nullified in 1944?
(a) The North Se Fisheries Convention.
(b) The National Waterways Convention.
(c) The Anglo-Danish Convention.
(d) The New World Fisheries Convention.

3. What was invented in the mid-19th century that was slow to catch on in the fishing industry?
(a) The steam engine.
(b) None of the answers is correct.
(c) Sonar.
(d) The wireless radio.

4. The Basques made the transition from landing and processing cod to becoming _____.
(a) Navigators.
(b) Pilots.
(c) Importers.
(d) Spice traders.

5. The first otter trawl was built in _____.
(a) Scotland.
(b) Iceland.
(c) Ireland.
(d) Newfoundland.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the Northern European product called when winter fish is dried without salting?

2. Harp seals do not like to deal with what part of the cod?

3. In Yorkshire, fish means _____.

4. To the British working class, fish means _____.

5. Who monopolized the Baltic herring trade and tried the same thing with dried cod in the fifteenth century?

(see the answer key)

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