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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3 and 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Newly born white sharks measure up to _______ feet and weigh up to eight-five pounds.
(a) Ten.
(b) Five.
(c) Eight.
(d) Twelve.

3. A sense of ___________________ is felt by the end of the first chapter.
(a) Relief.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Excitement.
(d) Foreboding.

4. Twenty-six teeth are contained in the top row and ______________ in the bottom row.
(a) Twenty-two.
(b) Twenty-six.
(c) Twenty-eight.
(d) Twenty-four.

5. By the time Oelrichs died in __________, no proof of the shark's danger to man had been produced.
(a) 1901.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1906.
(d) 1912.

Short Answer Questions

1. On board were the architect Stanford White, New York Sun publisher Charles Dana, and close friend ___________________.

2. Later scientists attributed Oelrichs' success to what probability?

3. The Vansants stayed at the stylish _____________ Hotel, where the upper crust enjoyed their respite.

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

5. 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.

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