1. In New York City, some newspaper reporters visited whose office?
(a) Dr. Aaron Frank Lucas'.
(b) Dr. Augustus Frederic Lucas'.
(c) Dr. Frederic Augustus Lucas'.
(d) Dr. Frank Aaron Lucas'.

2. What were women doing that was scandalous to many?
(a) They were exposing their arms and legs and wearing scandalous clinging wool suits.
(b) They were going on dates.
(c) They were talking to boys.
(d) They were not enjoying the beach environment.

3. What might have been the reason for the hotel to keep down word of the incident?
(a) To avoid mass chaos and fear.
(b) To avoid depressing the tourist trade.
(c) To see if the boy had been attacked by a shark or had drowned.
(d) To avoid a law suit.

4. Men all over the region were reaching for their rifles and harpoons to hunt the beast down and kill it. A _______________ dollar reward was offered by the mayor of Matawan for the person who killed it.
(a) Three-hundred.
(b) Five-hundred.
(c) One-hundred.
(d) Two-hundred.

5. Who ordered everyone out of the water?
(a) Hotel management.
(b) Hotel lifeguards.
(c) The Coast Guard.
(d) The President of the United States.

Short Answer Questions

1. The hotel manager, ___________________, immediately ordered his telephone operators to notify the operators in all the hotels on the north and central coast.

2. The only known evidence of a shark attack had been what?

3. Who does the boy miss at the beginning of the book?

4. Charles sensed that he was being followed and probably felt he had reached safety. Why did he feel safe?

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

(see the answer key)

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