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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. By ____________ years of age, the white shark nearly doubles in size, making it nearly invincible in its environment.
(a) Ten.
(b) Eight.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Five.

2. What happened to the two long distance swimmers on July 6, 1916?
(a) They were followed by the shark but were not attacked.
(b) The shark bumped into one of them.
(c) The shark attacked one of them.
(d) Nothing.

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

4. Beach life had deteriorated in some minds from the many young people visiting, who engaged in what?
(a) Gambling and drinking.
(b) Dates without chaperones.
(c) Aggressive sporting events.
(d) Heavy drinking and dancing to suggestive songs.

5. The first to reach Charles was who?
(a) Alexander Ott.
(b) His fiancee.
(c) The hotel manager.
(d) His father.

Short Answer Questions

1. Has the force of the great white's bite ever been measured?

2. What might have been the reason for the hotel to keep down word of the incident?

3. The shark stayed in the struggle until when?

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

5. Eugene and Louisa Vansant did what with their daughters at dusk while their eldest child, Charles, romped with the family dog in the waters off the beach?

(see the answer key)

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