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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. The twin ports of Hull and Grimsby are on the _____ River.
(a) St. Lawrence.
(b) Humber.
(c) Penobscot.
(d) Nictaux.

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

3. After _____ death in 1975, every sector of the Spanish economy attracted investments and was being modernized.
(a) Fernandez's.
(b) Fazil's.
(c) Franco's.
(d) Ferdinand's.

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

5. To the British working class, fish means _____.
(a) Hake.
(b) Whiting.
(c) Cod.
(d) Haddock.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the forerunner of sonar?

2. In the 1780's, British medicine decided cod-liver oil was a remedy for _____.

3. Who believed that if Britain lost its Newfoundland fishing ships based in Plymouth alone, it would be the greatest blow the country has ever been given?

4. In the quota system, groundfish are killed being hauled up do to _____.

5. Where did the Moore family take the train to every morning to buy freshly-landed North Sea cod?

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