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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 river is Arrigorriaga on in Basque country?
(a) The Duero.
(b) The Tajo.
(c) The Erbo.
(d) The Nerbioi.

2. What is the leading cause of death on a modern trawler?
(a) Heart attack.
(b) Falling overboard.
(c) Freezing to death.
(d) Being crushed by machinery.

3. Who conjectured that cod was named after a husk of seeds because the female holds so many eggs?
(a) Samuel Johnson.
(b) Henry David Thoreau.
(c) Benjamin Franklin.
(d) John Cabot.

4. What stage of cod development was most successful in the Norwegian experiment with cod farming?
(a) Larvae.
(b) Adult.
(c) Egg.
(d) Juvenile.

5. Which Spanish Basque city provided anchors and metal fittings with its ironworks and grew with the cod boom?
(a) Balboa.
(b) St. Michelle.
(c) Bilbao.
(d) Lido.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who offered the English Puritans either Manhattan or Guiana as a place of refuge?

2. Which author's novel described too many fishermen on the banks working the same grounds.

3. What kind of ships did the Spanish use to sack Cornwall historically?

4. The hilltop of _____ is in Spain's northwestern region of Galicia.

5. What are most houses in Iceland made out of now?

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