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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III - The Last Hunters.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Quotas cause as much of _____percent of a fisherman's catch to get dumped into the sea.
(a) Twenty.
(b) Forty.
(c) Ten.
(d) Sixty.

2. Pollock is vanishing from which Russian sea?
(a) Caspian.
(b) White.
(c) Okhotsk.
(d) East Siberian.

3. What 1901 convention establishing the three-mile limit was nullified in 1944?
(a) The North Se Fisheries Convention.
(b) The New World Fisheries Convention.
(c) The Anglo-Danish Convention.
(d) The National Waterways Convention.

4. Who was the father of Erik the Red?
(a) Leif Erickson.
(b) Cnut the Great.
(c) Brodir of Man
(d) Thorwald.

5. In 1995, a system was initiated to restrict the total cod catch to _____ percent of the estimated stock.
(a) 25.
(b) 10.
(c) 75.
(d) 50.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was one of the reasons the U.S. bought Alaska from the Russians?

2. What does the word "Naumkeag" mean?

3. Where was the Puritan minister, Francis Higgenson, from?

4. Which stock of cod has stopped migrating?

5. What company did Clarence Birdseye found in Gloucester?

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