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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. What did the swimmers do after they learned what danger they had been in?
(a) They went looking for the shark.
(b) They decided to go for another swim.
(c) They ignored the information.
(d) They changed their vacation plans immediately.

2. 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.
(a) No.
(b) Some.
(c) Very little.
(d) A great deal of.

3. As Gertrude stroked along parallel to the coastline, what happened to her?
(a) Nothing.
(b) She was suddenly attacked by a shark.
(c) She was suddenly pulled under water.
(d) She felt a sharp pain in her side.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. One fact that made the thought of men being killed or eaten by sharks unrealistic to many was what?

2. Successive rows of additional teeth are poised behind the functional teeth, ready to replace them when they are discarded. Every ______________ weeks, a new, serrated set of teeth replaces the current set.

3. Word spread about the experiment with what conclusion?

4. Beach life had deteriorated in some minds from the many young people visiting, who engaged in what?

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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