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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the book, fishing is hardest on what part of the body?
(a) The legs.
(b) The back.
(c) The fingers.
(d) The eyes.

2. What company did Clarence Birdseye found in Gloucester?
(a) Harbor Food Processing.
(b) Gorton's Seafood Company.
(c) Ocean Foods.
(d) General Seafoods Company.

3. What is the name of the long tube of air bladder in a cod that fills and adjusts swimming depth?
(a) The balloon.
(b) The buoy.
(c) The floater.
(d) The sound.

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

5. The 19th-century debate over longlining seemed to have been fueled by _____.
(a) Colonialism.
(b) Conservation.
(c) Nationalism.
(d) Fatalism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the air bladder of the cod used for in industry?

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

3. "Clipper schooners" carried a lot of sail. Why were they dangerous?

4. According to one theory, the Basques are thought to be the original _____.

5. What Nova Scotia fish product was heavily salted on schooners, then dried on flakes along a rocky coastline?

(see the answer key)

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