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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 an otter trawl, the bottom opening is maintained by a chain made more mobile by metal _____.
(a) Wheels.
(b) Levers.
(c) Casings.
(d) Bobbins.

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

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

4. Who believed that if Britain lost its Newfoundland fishing ships based in Plymouth alone, it would be the greatest blow the country has ever been given?
(a) John Cabot.
(b) John Smith.
(c) Christopher Columbus.
(d) Sir Walter Raleigh.

5. What is the name of the tropical body of water that once ran around the earth east-west and connected all the oceans?
(a) The Panthalassic Ocean.
(b) The Chixiclub Sea,
(c) The Tethys Sea.
(d) The Proto-Caribbean Sea.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Dorymen's wives made sails for them sewn from _____.

3. Which rich fishing region was considered the laboratory for cod fishing innovation?

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

5. The first otter trawl was built in _____.

(see the answer key)

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