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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where were slaves purchased with cured cod?

2. What are cod called after the larval stage?

3. Who monopolized the Baltic herring trade and tried the same thing with dried cod in the fifteenth century?

4. What was the premier French fishing port in Newfoundland in the early 16th century?

5. What is a growth that is produced from the nitrates being stirred up by conflicting currents?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why is cod considered a fish that is easy to catch?

4. Why do cod spawn so many eggs?

5. Why were New Englanders first drawn to the Caribbean in terms of trade?

6. How did John Cabot and his brother die?

7. Why did Bartholomew Gosnold return to Britain from his voyage in 1602?

8. Why was the French salt tax particularly hated and what war did it become a grievance for?

9. What happened in Grindavík, Iceland in 1532?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the difference between netting and longlining? Which method is considered more "democratic"? By whom, and why?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the Basque culture. What was their involvement in the development of the cod fishing industry? How did they become so powerful in the cod trade?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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