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

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

3. FPI stands for _____.
(a) Fisheries and Processing Identities.
(b) Fish and Procurement Incorporated.
(c) Fishing Piers Inland.
(d) Fishery Products International.

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

5. What is considered a bread substitute in Iceland?
(a) Corn muffins.
(b) Crackers.
(c) Herring.
(d) Stockfish.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was murdered in the Icelandic fishing station of Grindavík in 1532?

2. Who conjectured that cod was named after a husk of seeds because the female holds so many eggs?

3. Hákarl is the flesh of a large _____.

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

5. By 1918, which Maine city was building steel-hulled trawlers?

(see the answer key)

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