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

2. What was significant about the popular black and dark blue bathing suits?
(a) They were the exact colors of marine animals that the shark savored.
(b) They were the same colors as great whites.
(c) They were very unattractive.
(d) They were not appealing to sharks.

3. The shark had traveled ____________ miles north from Beach Haven.
(a) Fifty.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Thirty.
(d) Forty.

4. The shark was estimated to be _______ feet long and weighed around 500 pounds.
(a) Fifteen.
(b) Five.
(c) Ten.
(d) Eight.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What had appeared in the paper about the attack?

2. In July _________, the luxury yacht, Hildegard, set off on an outing in the Atlantic off the New York coast.

3. This editorial cited the fact that twenty-five years had passed since Oelrichs' swim with the sharks and _____ evidence had come forth of a shark attacking a man.

4. There were some ______________ people in the water the day following the attack on Charles Vansant.

5. The next day, articles appeared in both the New York Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer about the shark attack. Where were these articles located?

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