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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 is the name of the only tropical cod that remains today?
(a) Cusk.
(b) Bregmaceros.
(c) Hake.
(d) Whiting.

2. Which boat was invented on the Pacific to deal with rough seas and haul in bigger catches?
(a) The stern trawler.
(b) The otter trawler.
(c) The clipper.
(d) The three-mast schooner.

3. What commodity did Bartholomew Gosnold find in North America?
(a) Potatoes.
(b) Sassafras.
(c) Gold.
(d) Corn.

4. What were wind-dried whiting wetted with seawater to give them a special taste called?
(a) Kippers.
(b) Finnan haddie.
(c) Salthake.
(d) Speldings.

5. Dorymen's wives made sails for them sewn from _____.
(a) Old clothes.
(b) Old sheets.
(c) Towels.
(d) Flour sacks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is it called when a net is dragged along the ocean floor?

2. What 1901 convention establishing the three-mile limit was nullified in 1944?

3. What is a growth that is produced from the nitrates being stirred up by conflicting currents?

4. What were thick rubber gloves with cotton lining that fishermen wore called?

5. What is a lost net that can continue to fish for as long as five years called?

(see the answer key)

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