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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the leading cause of death on a modern trawler?
(a) Freezing to death.
(b) Falling overboard.
(c) Heart attack.
(d) Being crushed by machinery.

2. What are twenty-foot, deckless skiffs called?
(a) Rowers.
(b) Schooners.
(c) Dories.
(d) Clavids.

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

4. Who were infamous on the Grand Banks for the harshness of their working conditions?
(a) The British.
(b) The Spanish.
(c) The French.
(d) The Portuguese.

5. Watertight ship holds with holes for circulating seawater to keep fish alive were called _____.
(a) Keeper holds.
(b) Cod keepers.
(c) Wet wells.
(d) Live cages.

6. 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 three-mast schooner.
(d) The otter trawler.

7. The twin ports of Hull and Grimsby are on the _____ River.
(a) Penobscot.
(b) Nictaux.
(c) St. Lawrence.
(d) Humber.

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

9. What is considered a bread substitute in Iceland?
(a) Corn muffins.
(b) Crackers.
(c) Herring.
(d) Stockfish.

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

11. What was the forerunner of sonar?
(a) The echometer.
(b) The sonometer.
(c) The phonometer.
(d) The chronometer.

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

13. In 1944, Iceland negotiated full independence from _____.
(a) Denmark.
(b) France.
(c) Britain.
(d) Canada.

14. "Clipper schooners" carried a lot of sail. Why were they dangerous?
(a) They could not handle gale winds.
(b) They weren't dangerous.
(c) They ran aground easily.
(d) They maneuvered poorly.

15. Iceland is encrusted with _____.
(a) Dead sea creatures.
(b) Sand.
(c) Lava.
(d) Barnacles.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the 1780's, British medicine decided cod-liver oil was a remedy for _____.

2. In the quota system, groundfish are killed being hauled up do to _____.

3. The first otter trawl was built in _____.

4. Which American President issued a proclamation stating that the U.S. had the right to control mineral resources on its continental shelf?

5. What company did Clarence Birdseye found in Gloucester?

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