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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 were the French fishing fleets called?
(a) Jette-beaux.
(b) Poisson de la Mer.
(c) Terre-Neuve.
(d) Bateaux Royales.

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

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

4. What does the word "Naumkeag" mean?
(a) Farming land.
(b) Fishing place.
(c) Mountain people.
(d) Running horses.

5. Cod migrate inland to _____.
(a) Eat.
(b) Escape.
(c) Spawn.
(d) Die.

Short Answer Questions

1. Quotas cause as much of _____percent of a fisherman's catch to get dumped into the sea.

2. Newfoundland was a self-governing colony until when?

3. What is the Anglo-Saxon word that means "a place that has salt"?

4. What kept Newfoundland fish processing plants alive for a short time when the cod ran out?

5. The Basques made the transition from landing and processing cod to becoming _____.

(see the answer key)

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