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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7 and 8.

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

2. For what was the shark waiting?
(a) For its prey to bleed to death.
(b) For other sharks to come help it catch its prey.
(c) For its prey to escape.
(d) For its prey to swim farther out into the water.

3. The next day, articles appeared in both the New York Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer about the shark attack. Where were these articles located?
(a) In the middle of the newspapers.
(b) On front pages.
(c) Nowhere.
(d) On back pages.

4. The editorial noted that people had an unnatural ___________ sharks.
(a) Fear of.
(b) Power over.
(c) Interest in.
(d) Anger toward.

5. The thousands of ________________ that cover their skin aid in their maneuverability and speed.
(a) Scales.
(b) Derma.
(c) Denticles.
(d) Barnacles.

Short Answer Questions

1. The shark had traveled ____________ miles north from Beach Haven.

2. The shark attacked, biting Charles where?

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

4. What probably made Charles more vulnerable?

5. What had appeared in the paper about the attack?

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