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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II - Limits.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do New Englanders call smaller thin-shelled quahogs?
(a) Steamers.
(b) Barnacles.
(c) Sandies.
(d) Mud bugs.

2. Which Spanish Basque city provided anchors and metal fittings with its ironworks and grew with the cod boom?
(a) Bilbao.
(b) Lido.
(c) St. Michelle.
(d) Balboa.

3. What was invented in the mid-19th century that was slow to catch on in the fishing industry?
(a) None of the answers is correct.
(b) The wireless radio.
(c) Sonar.
(d) The steam engine.

4. Which London newspaper reported that the Icelanders were very difficult to deal with in the third Cod War?
(a) The Guardian.
(b) The Times.
(c) The Daily Mirror.
(d) The Financial Times.

5. What was the Iceland Coast Guard's secret weapon?
(a) A radio jammer.
(b) A linguistics expert.
(c) A trawl wire cutter.
(d) A fire hose.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a lost net that can continue to fish for as long as five years called?

2. What is the name of the tropical body of water that once ran around the earth east-west and connected all the oceans?

3. What was the Northern European product called when winter fish is dried without salting?

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

5. Who offered the English Puritans either Manhattan or Guiana as a place of refuge?

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