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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 rumors were rampant?
(a) The water was polluted.
(b) Sharks were patrolling offshore.
(c) The young people were causing problems on the beach.
(d) German U-boats were patrolling offshore.

2. What did Dr. William G. Schauffler immediately order?
(a) That a patrol be formed to hunt down and kill the shark.
(b) The closing of all beaches along the Atlantic.
(c) A study of sharks.
(d) A great white shark expert.

3. On board were the architect Stanford White, New York Sun publisher Charles Dana, and close friend ___________________.
(a) Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
(b) J.P. Morgan.
(c) Theodore Roosevelt.
(d) Andrew Carnegie.

4. The only known evidence of a shark attack had been what?
(a) There has been no evidence.
(b) A blurry photo of a shark ready to chomp down on a man.
(c) A death certificate saying that someone had died from a shark bite.
(d) Tall tales by sailors and fishermen.

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.
(a) $500.
(b) $100.
(c) $50.
(d) $5,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1915, a _______________ editorial was written entitled, "Let Us Do Justice To Sharks."

2. What was significant about the popular black and dark blue bathing suits?

3. The beach-goers of that year made up the largest gathering in the ____________ to date.

4. The shark had traveled ____________ miles north from Beach Haven.

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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