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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) David Miliband.
(b) Anthony Crosland.
(c) James Callaghan.
(d) Robin Cook.

3. Which international organization met in 1973 to expand ocean sovereignty?
(a) The Northern Seas Alliance.
(b) International Fisheries Council.
(c) The UN Seabed Committee.
(d) NATO.

4. What does the Dutch word "schrode" mean?
(a) Chip.
(b) Fish.
(c) Strip.
(d) Stick.

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

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

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

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

9. What were leaders of the trawler industry and chip shop guilds called?
(a) Chip choppers.
(b) Fish fryer associations.
(c) The cod parliament.
(d) Fish industrial guilds.

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

11. The 19th-century debate over longlining seemed to have been fueled by _____.
(a) Fatalism.
(b) Colonialism.
(c) Nationalism.
(d) Conservation.

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

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

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

15. Nova Scotia fishermen looked for a red gravel floor favored by cod called _____.
(a) Battle grounds.
(b) Rose rock.
(c) Cherry bottom.
(d) Sunset waters.

Short Answer Questions

1. Dorymen's wives made sails for them sewn from _____.

2. What was the forerunner of sonar?

3. Which rich fishing region was considered the laboratory for cod fishing innovation?

4. Clarence Birdseye was passing the winter in _____ when he discovered how to freeze food.

5. Iceland is encrusted with _____.

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