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

2. A ship with onboard fish processing is called a _____.
(a) Transport plant.
(b) Process outfitter.
(c) Floating station.
(d) Factory ship.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the leading cause of death on a modern trawler?

2. In 1944, Iceland negotiated full independence from _____.

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

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

5. Today, fish sticks are usually _____.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did the Icelandic government finally curb the capacity of is own fishing fleet?

3. Why did President Harry Truman impose protected zones for American fisheries?

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

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

6. How is hákarl flesh processed and why?

7. What happened to many British and German trawlers during the second Cod War?

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

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

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

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