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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What are most houses in Iceland made out of now?
(a) Rock.
(b) Metal or concrete.
(c) Wood.
(d) Mud or brick.

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

5. What does not grow native to Iceland?
(a) Trees.
(b) Grass.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Vines.

6. 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?
(a) Robin Cook.
(b) James Callaghan.
(c) David Miliband.
(d) Anthony Crosland.

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

8. Which boat was invented on the Pacific to deal with rough seas and haul in bigger catches?
(a) The stern trawler.
(b) The clipper.
(c) The otter trawler.
(d) The three-mast schooner.

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

10. Which schooner is now tied up as part of a maritime museum in Nova Scotia?
(a) The Thomas S. Gorton.
(b) The Theresa E. Connor.
(c) The Bluenose.
(d) The Halifax Fishherder.

11. Dorymen's wives made sails for them sewn from _____.
(a) Flour sacks.
(b) Old clothes.
(c) Towels.
(d) Old sheets.

12. What fish was pointed out by the European Economic Community to be abundant off the coast of Scotland?
(a) Walleye.
(b) Blue whiting.
(c) Haddock.
(d) Herring.

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

14. What were thick rubber gloves with cotton lining that fishermen wore called?
(a) Stiffs.
(b) Skimmers.
(c) Nippers.
(d) Mitts.

15. What were sail-powered draggers called?
(a) Wingets.
(b) Widgets.
(c) Smacks.
(d) Dibs.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What were leaders of the trawler industry and chip shop guilds called?

3. The 19th-century debate over longlining seemed to have been fueled by _____.

4. Hákarl is the flesh of a large _____.

5. According to the book, fishing is hardest on what part of the body?

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