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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. Confused by the coastline, the shark swam into the mouth of what creek?
(a) Indian Creek.
(b) Muscogee Creek.
(c) Matawan Creek.
(d) Flint Creek.

2. What might have been the reason for the hotel to keep down word of the incident?
(a) To avoid depressing the tourist trade.
(b) To avoid a law suit.
(c) To see if the boy had been attacked by a shark or had drowned.
(d) To avoid mass chaos and fear.

3. In 1922, two _____________ were attacked and killed at the same location, Coogee Beach, by large sharks that struck them with such force that they were lifted from the water.
(a) Boaters.
(b) Divers.
(c) Swimmers.
(d) Surfers.

4. In most cases, white sharks dislike the taste of humans and do what?
(a) Avoid them.
(b) Spit them out.
(c) Eat them quickly.
(d) Eat them anyway.

5. As the shark-patrol steered its motorboats back and forth, hunting for the shark, the shark was doing what?
(a) Heading north.
(b) Hunting for humans.
(c) Picking up the many vibrations and sensations that the boats were causing.
(d) Heading south.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. On July ________, 1916, Renny Cartan, Jr., his cousin Johnson Cartan, and some other friends took off for the swimming hole at the nearby creek.

3. After the shark attacked, what had happened to Bruder?

4. Coppleson felt there was evidence that if a shark experiences killing or mauling humans, he does what?

5. A shark can smell prey ___________________ away.

(see the answer key)

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