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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II - Limits.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the French salt tax called?
(a) Gabelle.
(b) Gabargent.
(c) Sels tax.
(d) Franc sel.

2. From Newfoundland to southern New England, there is a series of shallow areas called _____.
(a) Pools.
(b) Banks.
(c) Reefs.
(d) Shoals.

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

4. What company did Clarence Birdseye found in Gloucester?
(a) General Seafoods Company.
(b) Gorton's Seafood Company.
(c) Harbor Food Processing.
(d) Ocean Foods.

5. Today, fish sticks are usually _____.
(a) Haddock.
(b) Pacific pollock.
(c) Ling cod.
(d) Pacific cod.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1598, with whom were the Catholics at war?

2. Where were most explorers trying to get to in the 16th century?

3. Where was the Puritan minister, Francis Higgenson, from?

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

5. Which schooner is now tied up as part of a maritime museum in Nova Scotia?

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