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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. What does the Dutch word "schrode" mean?

2. The 19th-century debate over longlining seemed to have been fueled by _____.

3. The Cod Wars started in the middle of what other war?

4. Which boat was invented on the Pacific to deal with rough seas and haul in bigger catches?

5. Iceland is encrusted with _____.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What were the Grandmother messages of 1928?

3. How is hákarl flesh processed and why?

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

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

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

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

8. Describe how gill nets are used.

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the eating habits of cod. At what depth do they swim? How does this affect their feeding and how they are caught?

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 how Catholicism created a market for cod. Which holiday was instrumental in the creation of this market? Why? Who benefited from this market?

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