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

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

3. Word spread about the experiment with what conclusion?
(a) Sharks were dangerous to mankind.
(b) Sharks were not very intelligent.
(c) Sharks feared men.
(d) Sharks were no match for men.

4. 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) Three or four.
(c) Four or five.
(d) Two or three.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The Vansants stayed at the stylish _____________ Hotel, where the upper crust enjoyed their respite.

2. For what was the shark waiting?

3. Since it was unusual for the young white shark to be close to the shore in July 1916, experts later theorized that the lone predator was led toward shore by ________________.

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

5. The great white that attacked the swimmer in 1916 was probably born in the Atlantic around ___________.

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