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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What was the French salt tax called?
(a) Gabelle.
(b) Sels tax.
(c) Franc sel.
(d) Gabargent.

4. Who backed Giovanni da Verrazzano on his travels?
(a) French silk merchants.
(b) Italian pottery makers.
(c) Portuguese salt merchants.
(d) British whalers.

5. What is the name of the one freshwater cod?
(a) Burbot.
(b) Pollock.
(c) Grayling.
(d) Haddock.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who were infamous on the Grand Banks for the harshness of their working conditions?

2. What color of the meat of a cod is the result of sluggish muscle tissue?

3. Who was the longtime director of Iceland's Marine Research Institute and one of the negotiators during the third Cod War?

4. Watertight ship holds with holes for circulating seawater to keep fish alive were called _____.

5. What commodity did Bartholomew Gosnold find in North America?

(see the answer key)

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