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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the book, fishing is hardest on what part of the body?
(a) The eyes.
(b) The back.
(c) The legs.
(d) The fingers.

2. Which London newspaper reported that the Icelanders were very difficult to deal with in the third Cod War?
(a) The Daily Mirror.
(b) The Times.
(c) The Guardian.
(d) The Financial Times.

3. The Cod Wars started in the middle of what other war?
(a) World War II.
(b) The Cold War.
(c) The French and Indian War.
(d) World War I.

4. By 1918, which Maine city was building steel-hulled trawlers?
(a) Bangor.
(b) Rockland.
(c) Saco.
(d) Bath.

5. What are the fishing ground off the coast of Ireland called?
(a) The Ireland shelf.
(b) The Irish channel.
(c) The Irish box.
(d) The Celtic knot.

6. In 1881, a shipyard in Hull built a steam-powered trawler called the _____.
(a) Insomniac.
(b) Zodiac.
(c) The Merry Widow.
(d) Card Shark.

7. What is it called when a net is dragged along the ocean floor?
(a) Crabbing.
(b) Deep sounding.
(c) Bottom trawling.
(d) Skim dragging.

8. What company did Clarence Birdseye found in Gloucester?
(a) Harbor Food Processing.
(b) Gorton's Seafood Company.
(c) General Seafoods Company.
(d) Ocean Foods.

9. What replaced nylon in gill nets?
(a) Dacron.
(b) Acetate fiber.
(c) Rayon.
(d) Monofilament.

10. Johann Sigurjonsson is _____ of the Marine Research Institute in Iceland.
(a) Deputy director.
(b) Director.
(c) Operations manager.
(d) Lead scientist.

11. In 1995, a system was initiated to restrict the total cod catch to _____ percent of the estimated stock.
(a) 50.
(b) 25.
(c) 75.
(d) 10.

12. In the 1780's, British medicine decided cod-liver oil was a remedy for _____.
(a) Anemia.
(b) Rheumatism.
(c) Syphilis.
(d) Melancholy.

13. Hákarl is the flesh of a large _____.
(a) Hake.
(b) Puffer fish.
(c) Greenland shark.
(d) Gray skate.

14. What was invented in the mid-19th century that was slow to catch on in the fishing industry?
(a) The steam engine.
(b) The wireless radio.
(c) Sonar.
(d) None of the answers is correct.

15. Today, fish sticks are usually _____.
(a) Haddock.
(b) Ling cod.
(c) Pacific cod.
(d) Pacific pollock.

Short Answer Questions

1. Iceland is encrusted with _____.

2. Which schooner is now tied up as part of a maritime museum in Nova Scotia?

3. Which author's novel described too many fishermen on the banks working the same grounds.

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

5. Who were infamous on the Grand Banks for the harshness of their working conditions?

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