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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13 and 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Long distance swimmer, Robert W. Dowling, ________________, announced he would swim out four miles in the Atlantic--sharks be damned!
(a) Twelve.
(b) Fifteen.
(c) Nineteen.
(d) Twenty.

2. By ____________ years of age, the white shark nearly doubles in size, making it nearly invincible in its environment.
(a) Ten.
(b) Eight.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Five.

3. For what was the shark waiting?
(a) For its prey to escape.
(b) For its prey to swim farther out into the water.
(c) For its prey to bleed to death.
(d) For other sharks to come help it catch its prey.

4. _________________ miles up the coast from Beach Haven, the New Essex and Sussex Hotel occupied a large piece of real estate on the coast of Spring Lake.
(a) Thirty.
(b) Forty-five.
(c) Thirty-five.
(d) Forty.

5. The shark that attacked in 1916 had returned from the southern waters where he had suffered in his competition with many larger predators. He was tossed northward by what?
(a) A tropical storm.
(b) The strong current of the Gulf Stream.
(c) The smell of humans.
(d) A strong hurricane.

Short Answer Questions

1. Though young sharks can seem slow-moving, when stimulated they can reach speeds of ____________ miles per hour.

2. Scientists have recently theorized that shark attacks may be caused by what?

3. In 1922, two _____________ were attacked and killed at the same location, Coogee Beach, by large sharks that struck them with such force that they were lifted from the water.

4. As the shark-patrol steered its motorboats back and forth, hunting for the shark, the shark was doing what?

5. ______________________ of working-class men and women migrated across downtown Philadelphia to the coast on the first day of July 1916.

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