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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III - The Last Hunters.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do New Englanders call smaller thin-shelled quahogs?
(a) Barnacles.
(b) Mud bugs.
(c) Sandies.
(d) Steamers.

2. _____ were blamed for cod disappearances in the 19th century.
(a) Global warming.
(b) Pollution.
(c) A volcanic eruption.
(d) Migratory patterns.

3. What kept Newfoundland fish processing plants alive for a short time when the cod ran out?
(a) Herring.
(b) Arctic cod.
(c) Haddock.
(d) Russian cod.

4. The 19th-century debate over longlining seemed to have been fueled by _____.
(a) Conservation.
(b) Nationalism.
(c) Fatalism.
(d) Colonialism.

5. In Great Britain since the nineteenth century, cod has meant ____.
(a) Bridge.
(b) Government official.
(c) Joke or prank.
(d) Dolt.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which British foreign secretary commented on the third Cod War saying that both sides have shown valor, but there was no need to show virility?

2. What is the Anglo-Saxon word that means "a place that has salt"?

3. Where did the Moore family take the train to every morning to buy freshly-landed North Sea cod?

4. What commodity did Bartholomew Gosnold find in North America?

5. In 1995, a system was initiated to restrict the total cod catch to _____ percent of the estimated stock.

(see the answer key)

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