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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. For what was the shark waiting?
(a) For its prey to swim farther out into the water.
(b) For its prey to bleed to death.
(c) For its prey to escape.
(d) For other sharks to come help it catch its prey.

2. While the young shark is off the coast of Florida, it may be caught in the warm Gulf Stream currents, which does what to the shark?
(a) The high temperature disorients the shark.
(b) The high temperature makes it uncomfortable and struggle to hunt and feed.
(c) The high temperature makes it irritable and hungry.
(d) The high temperature makes it hungry for human flesh.

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

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

5. The great white that attacked the swimmer in 1916 was probably born in the Atlantic around ___________.
(a) 1915.
(b) 1908.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1912.

Short Answer Questions

1. The only known creatures that on rare occasions are known to attack great whites of this size are what?

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

3. What did Dowling swear?

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

5. Since the incident, experts have determined that swimmers who swim with dogs are at greater risk from shark attack. Why?

(see the answer key)

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