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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. Where did the Moore family take the train to every morning to buy freshly-landed North Sea cod?
(a) Newlyn.
(b) Blackwell.
(c) Daventry.
(d) Skegness.

2. Cod migrate inland to _____.
(a) Die.
(b) Eat.
(c) Escape.
(d) Spawn.

3. White strips of peanut butter-filled hard candy in St. John's are called _____.
(a) Codfins.
(b) Codfish bones.
(c) Codsounds.
(d) Codheads.

4. John Smith renamed _____ "New England".
(a) New Yorkshire.
(b) Nova Scotia.
(c) North Virginia.
(d) Newfoundland.

5. By keeping fish in _____ in Petty Harbour, they can be kept alive until a market could be found for them.
(a) Freezers.
(b) Hanging tanks.
(c) Pens.
(d) Off shore wells.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Estimates on fish stock sizes are misinterpreted because they are based on landings and not on _____.

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

4. Newfoundland was a self-governing colony until when?

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

(see the answer key)

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