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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II - Limits.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. Which author's novel described too many fishermen on the banks working the same grounds.
(a) Kipling.
(b) Auden.
(c) Thoreau.
(d) Stevenson.

3. Who monopolized the Baltic herring trade and tried the same thing with dried cod in the fifteenth century?
(a) The Hanseatics.
(b) The Vikings.
(c) The Turks.
(d) The Huns.

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

5. According to the book, fishing is hardest on what part of the body?
(a) The back.
(b) The eyes.
(c) The fingers.
(d) The legs.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which American President issued a proclamation stating that the U.S. had the right to control mineral resources on its continental shelf?

3. The Cod Wars started in the middle of what other war?

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

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

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