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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 19 and 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was wrong with the North Atlantic region for the shark?
(a) It did not offer him many food choices.
(b) It was very warm.
(c) It was very cold.
(d) It had too many animals from which to choose.

2. Dr. Herbert Cooley at Keyport tended to Joseph when he was brought ashore. Joseph's ______________ received a large bite. The doctor treated the wound and had Joseph rushed to the hospital.
(a) Arm muscle.
(b) Neck muscle.
(c) Thigh muscle.
(d) Calf muscle.

3. What might have been the reason for the hotel to keep down word of the incident?
(a) To see if the boy had been attacked by a shark or had drowned.
(b) To avoid depressing the tourist trade.
(c) To avoid a law suit.
(d) To avoid mass chaos and fear.

4. What did Charles Bruder want to do?
(a) He wanted to swim with the shark.
(b) He wanted to catch the shark.
(c) He wanted to outdo Dowling's recent swim.
(d) He wanted to go surfing.

5. What happened to the two long distance swimmers on July 6, 1916?
(a) The shark bumped into one of them.
(b) They were followed by the shark but were not attacked.
(c) The shark attacked one of them.
(d) Nothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Fisher set up so the boy's body wouldn't wash out to sea?

2. _______ Craven, walking along the bank of the creek, had just about given up on the shark when he saw something bobbing in the water. It was Lester.

3. What did the shark do to Renny?

4. _______________ staff physician, Dr. William G. Schauffler, completed the official report.

5. A lunar eclipse would be occurring on July _______ that year.

(see the answer key)

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