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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Equipment that waits for the fish is called _____.
(a) Comstocks.
(b) Passive gear.
(c) Dead netting.
(d) Diggers.

2. Clarence Birdseye was passing the winter in _____ when he discovered how to freeze food.
(a) Labrador.
(b) Greenland.
(c) Alaska.
(d) Iceland.

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

4. Which boat was invented on the Pacific to deal with rough seas and haul in bigger catches?
(a) The clipper.
(b) The stern trawler.
(c) The three-mast schooner.
(d) The otter trawler.

5. Dorymen's wives made sails for them sewn from _____.
(a) Old clothes.
(b) Towels.
(c) Old sheets.
(d) Flour sacks.

6. What is the leading cause of death on a modern trawler?
(a) Falling overboard.
(b) Heart attack.
(c) Freezing to death.
(d) Being crushed by machinery.

7. Who was the longtime director of Iceland's Marine Research Institute and one of the negotiators during the third Cod War?
(a) Leif Marksson.
(b) Thor Thorsson.
(c) Jon Jonsson.
(d) Erik Grindavík.

8. Who returned to Iceland in 1964 and was astounded by its transformation?
(a) Pablo Picasso.
(b) Erik Eriksson.
(c) W. H. Auden.
(d) Henry David Thoreau.

9. The first otter trawl was built in _____.
(a) Iceland.
(b) Scotland.
(c) Newfoundland.
(d) Ireland.

10. Who was Canada's biggest competitor in the cod market in the 19th century?
(a) Norway.
(b) Sweden.
(c) Britain.
(d) Iceland.

11. What were leaders of the trawler industry and chip shop guilds called?
(a) Fish fryer associations.
(b) Chip choppers.
(c) Fish industrial guilds.
(d) The cod parliament.

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

13. Iceland is encrusted with _____.
(a) Sand.
(b) Dead sea creatures.
(c) Lava.
(d) Barnacles.

14. What are twenty-foot, deckless skiffs called?
(a) Clavids.
(b) Dories.
(c) Rowers.
(d) Schooners.

15. What was the forerunner of sonar?
(a) The echometer.
(b) The sonometer.
(c) The chronometer.
(d) The phonometer.

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. Which London newspaper reported that the Icelanders were very difficult to deal with in the third Cod War?

4. Which rich fishing region was considered the laboratory for cod fishing innovation?

5. Which mountain erupted in 1389 on Iceland?

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