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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. Who was murdered in the Icelandic fishing station of Grindavík in 1532?
(a) Erik the Red.
(b) John Smith.
(c) John the Broad.
(d) John Cabot.

2. Where did Ralph Mayo of the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service study Georges Bank?
(a) Quick's Hole.
(b) Boston.
(c) Nova Scotia .
(d) Woods Hole.

3. In Yorkshire, fish means _____.
(a) Haddock.
(b) Pollock.
(c) Hake.
(d) Ling.

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

5. Which rich fishing region was considered the laboratory for cod fishing innovation?
(a) The Icelandic coast.
(b) The Georges Bank.
(c) The Grand Banks.
(d) The North Sea.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, what is the most notable sport the Basques are known for?

2. Quotas cause as much of _____percent of a fisherman's catch to get dumped into the sea.

3. What was the name of the island that Thomas Croft and John Jay searched for in the Atlantic?

4. Which Spanish Basque city provided anchors and metal fittings with its ironworks and grew with the cod boom?

5. Who was the longtime director of Iceland's Marine Research Institute and one of the negotiators during the third Cod War?

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