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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 Nova Scotia fish product was heavily salted on schooners, then dried on flakes along a rocky coastline?
(a) Hákarl.
(b) Gloucester gold.
(c) Salt ling.
(d) The Lunenburg cure.

2. What replaced nylon in gill nets?
(a) Acetate fiber.
(b) Monofilament.
(c) Dacron.
(d) Rayon.

3. Who was sent to Guiana as a death sentence in the 16th century?
(a) John Cabot.
(b) Marco Polo.
(c) Thomas Huxley.
(d) Juan Martinez.

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

5. What are the fishing ground off the coast of Ireland called?
(a) The Celtic knot.
(b) The Irish box.
(c) The Ireland shelf.
(d) The Irish channel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the Iceland Coast Guard's secret weapon?

2. Where was the Puritan minister, Francis Higgenson, from?

3. What is the name of the long tube of air bladder in a cod that fills and adjusts swimming depth?

4. What does the Dutch word "schrode" mean?

5. Sterling", according to Kurlansky, means what?

(see the answer key)

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