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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 15 and 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Scientists have recently theorized that shark attacks may be caused by what?
(a) Lack of food.
(b) Sick sharks.
(c) Changes in coastal water temperatures.
(d) More humans in the water.

2. In large part, why has the great white escaped scientific scrutiny?
(a) It is a very solitary animal.
(b) It is not of interest to most ichthyologists.
(c) It is too large and powerful for captivity.
(d) It's numbers are too few.

3. Leonard Hill planned to swim out a quarter-mile from the coast and then ________ miles due south.
(a) Nine.
(b) Five.
(c) Eleven.
(d) Seven.

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?
(a) On back pages.
(b) On front pages.
(c) Nowhere.
(d) In the middle of the newspapers.

5. There was a report of a thirteen-foot tiger shark that was towed ashore while still alive regurgitating, among other items, what?
(a) A well-preserved human arm.
(b) A rubber tire.
(c) A small school of fish.
(d) A squid.

Short Answer Questions

1. The reporters had endless questions about what?

2. Twenty-six teeth are contained in the top row and ______________ in the bottom row.

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

4. The shark stayed in the struggle until when?

5. _________________ miles up the coast from Beach Haven, the New Essex and Sussex Hotel occupied a large piece of real estate on the coast of Spring Lake.

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