1. As Gertrude stroked along parallel to the coastline, what happened to her?
(a) Nothing.
(b) She was suddenly attacked by a shark.
(c) She felt a sharp pain in her side.
(d) She was suddenly pulled under water.

2. Leonard Hill planned to swim out a quarter-mile from the coast and then ________ miles due south.
(a) Nine.
(b) Five.
(c) Eleven.
(d) Seven.

3. What had appeared in the paper about the attack?
(a) An article on the front page.
(b) Some information in the middle of the paper.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A small article on the back page.

4. The shark that attacked in 1916 had returned from the southern waters where he had suffered in his competition with many larger predators. He was tossed northward by what?
(a) A strong hurricane.
(b) The strong current of the Gulf Stream.
(c) The smell of humans.
(d) A tropical storm.

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

Short Answer 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.

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

3. Word spread about the experiment with what conclusion?

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

5. Was it common to see sharks along the Atlantic coast?

(see the answer key)

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