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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 the quota system, groundfish are killed being hauled up do to _____.
(a) Hyperthermia.
(b) Hypothermia.
(c) Oxygen depletion.
(d) Pressure changes.

2. What is the Anglo-Saxon word that means "a place that has salt"?
(a) Wich.
(b) Ham.
(c) Chester.
(d) Ville.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In an otter trawl, the bottom opening is maintained by a chain made more mobile by metal _____.

2. Who monopolized the Baltic herring trade and tried the same thing with dried cod in the fifteenth century?

3. What is the name of the only tropical cod that remains today?

4. Today, fish sticks are usually _____.

5. Hákarl is the flesh of a large _____.

(see the answer key)

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