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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. 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) Nowhere.
(c) On back pages.
(d) On front pages.

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

3. Who does the boy miss at the beginning of the book?
(a) His sister.
(b) His fiancee.
(c) His brother.
(d) His mother.

4. The very next day, Gertrude Schuyler, from _________________, and her family were at a resort across from the spot where the shark had killed Charles Vansant.
(a) Indianapolis.
(b) Boston.
(c) New York City.
(d) Philadelphia.

5. What probably made Charles more vulnerable?
(a) He was not very strong.
(b) He was a lone swimmer.
(c) He was holding onto his dog.
(d) He was bleeding.

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. The headline in the Times read, "_____________________."

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

4. Leonard Hill planned to swim out a quarter-mile from the coast and then ________ miles due south.

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

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