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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 does the phrase "magnimity imported" mean in the language of the southern New England coast?
(a) Imported fish colonies.
(b) Before the importance was realized.
(c) Someone who thinks they are important.
(d) Magnanimously important.

2. When locals were allowed to fish cod for their own consumption for one weekend it was called a ______.
(a) Cod fest.
(b) Fish fry incentive.
(c) Food fishery.
(d) Fish break.

3. What is the name of the Jamaican Rum bottled in Newfoundland?
(a) Sinner's Cove.
(b) Skullnik.
(c) Hammerbait.
(d) Screech.

4. What is a growth that is produced from the nitrates being stirred up by conflicting currents?
(a) Diatoms.
(b) Phytoplankton.
(c) Telonemia.
(d) Krill.

5. The colonial governor of New Amsterdam wrote of six-foot _____ in 1649.
(a) Crabs.
(b) Turtles.
(c) Cod.
(d) Lobsters.

Short Answer Questions

1. _____ were blamed for cod disappearances in the 19th century.

2. One-third of the Iceland town of Heimaey was destroyed by _____ in 1973?

3. In 1944, Iceland negotiated full independence from _____.

4. Which international organization met in 1973 to expand ocean sovereignty?

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

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