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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 is the name of the tropical body of water that once ran around the earth east-west and connected all the oceans?
(a) The Chixiclub Sea,
(b) The Tethys Sea.
(c) The Proto-Caribbean Sea.
(d) The Panthalassic Ocean.

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

3. The 19th-century debate over longlining seemed to have been fueled by _____.
(a) Nationalism.
(b) Conservation.
(c) Colonialism.
(d) Fatalism.

4. What is the name of the long tube of air bladder in a cod that fills and adjusts swimming depth?
(a) The buoy.
(b) The balloon.
(c) The sound.
(d) The floater.

5. Who was murdered in the Icelandic fishing station of Grindavík in 1532?
(a) John the Broad.
(b) John Cabot.
(c) John Smith.
(d) Erik the Red.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were leaders of the trawler industry and chip shop guilds called?

2. The word for fresh cod in French is ____.

3. What do New Englanders call smaller thin-shelled quahogs?

4. Who outlawed the Basque language?

5. What were lobsters considered to be by the Pilgrims?

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