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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5 and 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.
(a) Five or six.
(b) Two or three.
(c) Four or five.
(d) Three or four.

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

3. A shark can smell prey ___________________ away.
(a) A mile.
(b) One hundred feet.
(c) A half-mile.
(d) A quarter-mile.

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

5. What probably made Charles more vulnerable?
(a) He was not very strong.
(b) He was a lone swimmer.
(c) He was bleeding.
(d) He was holding onto his dog.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. As beach goers ran in to try to pull Charles ashore, the shark with bits of Charles' flesh in his mouth, did what?

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

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

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