View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The eating habits of cod are classified as _____.

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

4. What are the best shore spaces for drying catch called?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Britain show flexibility in its colonialism with North America?

2. Describe the Georges Bank and why this was a good fishing area for cod.

3. Why did the cod trade relationship between Britain and Portugal deteriorate in the 16th century?

4. What type of ocean currents do cod prefer?

5. Why do cod spawn so many eggs?

6. How did the Pilgrims finally become good at farming?

7. What happened when New Englanders become entrepreneurs? How did this conflict with the intent of the British Crown?

8. Why did the Royal Fishery accountant, John Collins, publish a book on salt in 1682?

9. Why were Thorwald and Erik the Red thrown out of Norway and what do they do after that?

10. Where do the Basques live and how do they interpret their homeland?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the Cod Wars. What events led up to the Cod Wars? What effect did they have on the cod fishing industry?

Essay Topic 2

Describe how quotas are used to try to restore cod numbers. What aspect of the quota system is so wasteful as to make the process less effective than it was set out to be?

Essay Topic 3

How have the migratory patterns of cod changed? What is the effect of arctic cod on other cod species? What signs of possible extinction are being noticed by fishermen? What species have replaced the cod as profitable catches? How have their migratory patterns changed?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 667 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample