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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In the quota system, groundfish are killed being hauled up do to _____.
(a) Hyperthermia.
(b) Pressure changes.
(c) Hypothermia.
(d) Oxygen depletion.

3. What was the Iceland Coast Guard's secret weapon?
(a) A linguistics expert.
(b) A radio jammer.
(c) A fire hose.
(d) A trawl wire cutter.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What 1901 convention establishing the three-mile limit was nullified in 1944?

2. In an otter trawl, the bottom opening is maintained by a chain made more mobile by metal _____.

3. What is considered a bread substitute in Iceland?

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

5. Equipment that waits for the fish is called _____.

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Icelanders rejoice in the addition of the 12-mile limit zone around their country?

2. How were the Icelandic Coast Guard ships during the Cod Wars armed and manned?

3. What skills did fishermen learn in the wake of the imposition of 200-mile zones?

4. Why did it take over seventy years for Europeans to convert their cod fishing fleets to engine power?

5. Why was the British Royal Navy reluctant to send combat ships to deal with Iceland during the second Cod War?

6. Why did Icelandic Coast Guard vessels withstand enemy attacks in the second cod war?

7. How is hákarl flesh processed and why?

8. How did the invention of filleting machinery change New England's cod fishing industry?

9. What effect did the term "scrod" have on consumer's perspective on fish?

10. How did navigation improve in fishing in the 17th century?

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