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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9 and 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to Charles Bruder on the way back to the shore?
(a) He died.
(b) He begged to go after the shark.
(c) He began to feel better.
(d) He lost consciousness.

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

3. Some hotel guests worried about the incident, others were sure the incident had been exaggerated and believed what had happened to the young man?
(a) He had a cramp and had to swim to the shore.
(b) He had been chased by a shark.
(c) He had a heart attack.
(d) He had drowned.

4. As beach goers ran in to try to pull Charles ashore, the shark with bits of Charles' flesh in his mouth, did what?
(a) Swam away.
(b) Attacked again.
(c) Backed off and seemed to wait.
(d) Went after another swimmer.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. A sense of ___________________ is felt by the end of the first chapter.

2. 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?

3. Bruder boasted that he was not afraid of sharks. Why was he not afraid?

4. Long distance swimmer, Robert W. Dowling, ________________, announced he would swim out four miles in the Atlantic--sharks be damned!

5. What probably made Charles more vulnerable?

(see the answer key)

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