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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is it called when a net is dragged along the ocean floor?

3. What does the Dutch word "schrode" mean?

4. Johann Sigurjonsson is _____ of the Marine Research Institute in Iceland.

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were the Grandmother messages of 1928?

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

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

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

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

6. Describe how gill nets are used.

7. Why do fishermen have comparatively high accident rates?

8. What did Halldór Laxness win the Nobel Prize for and why?

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

10. How did the British respond to being asked to change their preference for fried cod as the cod catch continued to decline?

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