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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In an otter trawl, the bottom opening is maintained by a chain made more mobile by metal _____.
(a) Levers.
(b) Wheels.
(c) Casings.
(d) Bobbins.

2. Europe's best salt was supposed to have come from which country?
(a) France.
(b) Portugal.
(c) Britain.
(d) Spain.

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

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

5. Which American President issued a proclamation stating that the U.S. had the right to control mineral resources on its continental shelf?
(a) Woodrow Wilson.
(b) Dwight D. Eisenhower.
(c) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(d) Harry S. Truman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which rich fishing region was considered the laboratory for cod fishing innovation?

2. What Nova Scotia fish product was heavily salted on schooners, then dried on flakes along a rocky coastline?

3. Dorymen's wives made sails for them sewn from _____.

4. Which London newspaper reported that the Icelanders were very difficult to deal with in the third Cod War?

5. Who outlawed the Basque language?

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