View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A new smell, the scent of _______________________, also would have piqued the interest of the shark.
(a) Fish.
(b) Children.
(c) Human waste.
(d) Dogs.

2. As the young shark develops, his hunger turns him toward prey such as _______________.
(a) Small fish and crustaceans.
(b) Seals and dolphins.
(c) Humans.
(d) Orcas and whales.

3. What might have been the reason for the hotel to keep down word of the incident?
(a) To avoid depressing the tourist trade.
(b) To avoid a law suit.
(c) To see if the boy had been attacked by a shark or had drowned.
(d) To avoid mass chaos and fear.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. A young man waded out in the Atlantic, his ______________ dog alongside his master.

2. By the time Oelrichs died in __________, no proof of the shark's danger to man had been produced.

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

4. The only known evidence of a shark attack had been what?

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 268 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample