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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What company did Clarence Birdseye found in Gloucester?

3. What were leaders of the trawler industry and chip shop guilds called?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do fishermen have comparatively high accident rates?

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

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

4. How is hákarl flesh processed and why?

5. What is pair fishing?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who implemented cod farming as a way to combat depleted catches? What are scientists' fears about cod farming today? What are the differences between cod and salmon farming? How is the constitution of a salmon different from that of a cod?

Essay Topic 2

What happened in the French and Indian War? How was cod trade affected by the outcome? Which French colonies were affected? How? What do they produce?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the role of the codfish in the culture of New England. How did the "codfish aristocracy" trace their family fortunes? Where does the codfish symbol appear in modern New England? What is the history of the odd symbol?

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