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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 17 and 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Charles sensed that he was being followed and probably felt he had reached safety. Why did he feel safe?
(a) He thought he could swim faster than the shark.
(b) He believed sharks were not dangerous.
(c) He thought the shark following him was a figment of his imagination.
(d) He was in water that was only three and a half feet deep.

2. This doctor insisted what?
(a) A shark might be able to inflict the damage that Bruder suffered.
(b) A shark could easily inflict the damage that Bruder suffered.
(c) A shark could not inflict the damage that Bruder suffered.
(d) A shark could not very easily inflict the damage that Bruder suffered.

3. The expert and some of his assistants had witnessed sharks first hand and had observed how difficult it was for them to do what?
(a) Tear flesh from dead carcasses.
(b) Tear the flesh of large fish.
(c) Find a human scent in the water.
(d) Catch seals.

4. A shark can smell prey ___________________ away.
(a) A quarter-mile.
(b) A half-mile.
(c) A mile.
(d) One hundred feet.

5. Lucas had sent whom to the scene of the shark attack on Charles Bruder?
(a) Dr. Smith.
(b) Dr. Johnson.
(c) Dr. Nichols.
(d) Dr. Neergaard.

Short Answer Questions

1. The people irrationally linked the great white attack to what?

2. Suddenly, Joseph was being pulled down by his leg. His brother Michael and a rescuer, Jacob Lefferts, both leaped in the water and tried to wrest Joseph from the shark's mouth. They were able to pull Joseph out and onto whose boat?

3. Many years later, ichthyologist George Burgess concluded that the shark was a _________, serial killer, but in the rhetoric of the day, the shark was a sea monster.

4. There was disagreement among the public as to what killed Charles. Some thought a shark was the culprit, others were convinced that _____________ was the predator.

5. When Lester was pulled under by the shark, the boys ran into town and told ___________________ what had happened.

(see the answer key)

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