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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. The _______________ Hotel's young bell captain, Charles Bruder, decided to slip away for an afternoon swim.
(a) Lenox.
(b) Sussex.
(c) Hilton.
(d) Essex.

2. Many years later, ichthyologist George Burgess concluded that the shark was a _________, serial killer, but in the rhetoric of the day, the shark was a sea monster.
(a) Beast.
(b) Rogue.
(c) Monster.
(d) Maniac.

3. In 1915, a _______________ editorial was written entitled, "Let Us Do Justice To Sharks."
(a) New Yorker.
(b) USA Today.
(c) New York Post.
(d) New York Times.

4. The beach-goers of that year made up the largest gathering in the ____________ to date.
(a) Country.
(b) State.
(c) East.
(d) Region.

5. 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 heart attack.
(b) He had drowned.
(c) He had a cramp and had to swim to the shore.
(d) He had been chased by a shark.

Short Answer Questions

1. News spread of the horrific incident. Some fishermen swore what?

2. The next day, articles appeared in both the New York Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer about the shark attack. Where were these articles located?

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

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

5. Later scientists attributed Oelrichs' success to what probability?

(see the answer key)

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