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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7 and 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The first to reach Charles was who?
(a) The hotel manager.
(b) Alexander Ott.
(c) His father.
(d) His fiancee.

2. The next day, articles appeared in both the New York Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer about the shark attack. Where were these articles located?
(a) In the middle of the newspapers.
(b) On back pages.
(c) Nowhere.
(d) On front pages.

3. The editorial noted that people had an unnatural ___________ sharks.
(a) Interest in.
(b) Fear of.
(c) Anger toward.
(d) Power over.

4. ______________________ of working-class men and women migrated across downtown Philadelphia to the coast on the first day of July 1916.
(a) Hundreds.
(b) Dozens.
(c) Thousands.
(d) Millions.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. By the time Oelrichs died in __________, no proof of the shark's danger to man had been produced.

2. In large part, why has the great white escaped scientific scrutiny?

3. Some hotel guests worried about the incident, others were sure the incident had been exaggerated and believed what had happened to the young man?

4. In 1915, a _______________ editorial was written entitled, "Let Us Do Justice To Sharks."

5. Eugene and Louisa Vansant did what with their daughters at dusk while their eldest child, Charles, romped with the family dog in the waters off the beach?

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