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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 were women doing that was scandalous to many?
(a) They were exposing their arms and legs and wearing scandalous clinging wool suits.
(b) They were going on dates.
(c) They were talking to boys.
(d) They were not enjoying the beach environment.

2. What did some think had killed Charles Bruder?
(a) Another sea animal like an orca or a dolphin.
(b) The loch ness monster.
(c) Another person.
(d) Another sea animal like a swordfish or turtle.

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

4. The only known creatures that on rare occasions are known to attack great whites of this size are what?
(a) Blue whales and orcas.
(b) Dolphins, sperm whales, and larger great whites.
(c) Seals and dolphins.
(d) Larger great whites, sperm whales and orcas.

5. The shark had traveled ____________ miles north from Beach Haven.
(a) Twenty.
(b) Forty.
(c) Fifty.
(d) Thirty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who ordered everyone out of the water?

2. Why did Bruder give several bellmen a break to join at the beach?

3. What probably made Charles more vulnerable?

4. What did Charles Bruder want to do?

5. The owner and captain of the yacht was the wealthy shipping mogul Hermann Oelrichs. One of Oelrichs' goals was to debunk the myth that sharks were man-eaters. He felt certain that their bad publicity stemmed from pure fantasy. He had offered a reward of ____________ for proof that any person had ever been attacked by a shark.

(see the answer key)

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