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

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

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

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

5. In Peru, Clarence Birdseye found a way to covert crushed remains of sugar cane into _____.
(a) Dog food.
(b) Paint.
(c) Paper.
(d) Cloth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is cod pickled with in barrels?

2. What was the French salt tax called?

3. What do humpback whales feed on?

4. Where were slaves purchased with cured cod?

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

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