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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. 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?
(a) The high temperature disorients the shark.
(b) The high temperature makes it uncomfortable and struggle to hunt and feed.
(c) The high temperature makes it hungry for human flesh.
(d) The high temperature makes it irritable and hungry.

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

3. 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?
(a) The amount of money her husband would spend at the casino.
(b) The location of their hotel.
(c) Some young women who were going to be parading around in revealing beach wear.
(d) How the family would spend their leisure time.

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

5. On board were the architect Stanford White, New York Sun publisher Charles Dana, and close friend ___________________.
(a) Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
(b) Andrew Carnegie.
(c) Theodore Roosevelt.
(d) J.P. Morgan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Newly born white sharks measure up to _______ feet and weigh up to eight-five pounds.

2. Word spread about the experiment with what conclusion?

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

4. A sense of ___________________ is felt by the end of the first chapter.

5. The beach-goers of that year made up the largest gathering in the ____________ to date.

(see the answer key)

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