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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 fish was pointed out by the European Economic Community to be abundant off the coast of Scotland?
(a) Blue whiting.
(b) Walleye.
(c) Herring.
(d) Haddock.

2. Which now-extinct bird would flock overhead and darken the sky in 16th century North America?
(a) White-winged sandpipers.
(b) Passenger pigeons.
(c) Mariana mallards.
(d) Lorikeets.

3. Jacques Cartier is credited for "discovering" the mouth of which river?
(a) The Mississippi.
(b) The Pinware River.
(c) The St. Lawrence.
(d) The Hudson.

4. What is the Basque language called?
(a) Esperanza.
(b) Basquian.
(c) Euskera.
(d) Latinia.

5. What were lobsters considered to be by the Pilgrims?
(a) Pests.
(b) Sea monsters.
(c) Pets.
(d) Delicacies.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Iceland is encrusted with _____.

3. In Peru, Clarence Birdseye found a way to covert crushed remains of sugar cane into _____.

4. Who was sent to Guiana as a death sentence in the 16th century?

5. What are most houses in Iceland made out of now?

(see the answer key)

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