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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. What were sail-powered draggers called?
(a) Smacks.
(b) Wingets.
(c) Widgets.
(d) Dibs.

2. Estimates on fish stock sizes are misinterpreted because they are based on landings and not on _____.
(a) Catch.
(b) Smack well population.
(c) By-catch.
(d) Wet well population.

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

4. Pollock is vanishing from which Russian sea?
(a) Okhotsk.
(b) Caspian.
(c) White.
(d) East Siberian.

5. Who was sent to Guiana as a death sentence in the 16th century?
(a) John Cabot.
(b) Thomas Huxley.
(c) Juan Martinez.
(d) Marco Polo.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who returned to Iceland in 1964 and was astounded by its transformation?

2. What is a lost net that can continue to fish for as long as five years called?

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

4. Newlyn is really a _____ town.

5. Where were slaves purchased with cured cod?

(see the answer key)

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