1. Though young sharks can seem slow-moving, when stimulated they can reach speeds of ____________ miles per hour.
(a) Fifty.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Thirty.
(d) Seventy.

2. Later scientists attributed Oelrichs' success to what probability?
(a) The sharks were juvenile great whites.
(b) He thought a school of orcas were actually sharks.
(c) The sharks were small, non-aggressive species.
(d) The great whites were not hungry at the time he jumped in the water.

3. 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?
(a) Had dinner.
(b) Strolled along the boardwalk.
(c) Went dancing.
(d) Went to the movies.

4. The owner and captain of the yacht was the wealthy shipping mogul Hermann Oelrichs. One of Oelrichs' goals was to debunk the myth that sharks were man-eaters. He felt certain that their bad publicity stemmed from pure fantasy. He had offered a reward of ____________ for proof that any person had ever been attacked by a shark.
(a) $500.
(b) $50.
(c) $100.
(d) $5,000.

5. Has the force of the great white's bite ever been measured?
(a) Yes, but the measurement was made on a juvenile shark.
(b) Yes.
(c) Yes, but the evidence is not solid.
(d) No.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mrs. Vansant was somewhat concerned about the possible ruckus on the Jersey Shore due to the hordes of visitors expected and a controversy over what?

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

3. While the young shark is off the coast of Florida, it may be caught in the warm Gulf Stream currents, which does what to the shark?

4. Word spread about the experiment with what conclusion?

5. The editorial noted that people had an unnatural ___________ sharks.

(see the answer key)

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