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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 does not grow native to Iceland?
(a) Trees.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Vines.
(d) Grass.

2. Where were most explorers trying to get to in the 16th century?
(a) Russia.
(b) Asia.
(c) South America.
(d) California.

3. Clarence Birdseye was passing the winter in _____ when he discovered how to freeze food.
(a) Alaska.
(b) Labrador.
(c) Greenland.
(d) Iceland.

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

5. Watertight ship holds with holes for circulating seawater to keep fish alive were called _____.
(a) Live cages.
(b) Keeper holds.
(c) Wet wells.
(d) Cod keepers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the best shore spaces for drying catch called?

2. John Smith renamed _____ "New England".

3. According to one theory, the Basques are thought to be the original _____.

4. Johann Sigurjonsson is _____ of the Marine Research Institute in Iceland.

5. What is the throat of the cod called?

(see the answer key)

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