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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. Since the incident, experts have determined that swimmers who swim with dogs are at greater risk from shark attack. Why?
(a) Due to the dog's erratic movements in the water.
(b) Due to the strong scent a dog gives off.
(c) Due to the sounds a dog makes.
(d) Due to the relationship between men and canines.

2. Coppleson cited the North Atlantic attacks of 1916 as those of a rogue shark, even though many American experts maintained what belief?
(a) The deaths of the swimmers were caused by orcas.
(b) The deaths of the swimmers were caused by a shark that could not be considered a rogue shark.
(c) The deaths of the swimmers were not caused by sharks.
(d) The swimmers drowned.

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) Two or three.
(c) Four or five.
(d) Five or six.

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

5. A lunar eclipse would be occurring on July _______ that year.
(a) 24th.
(b) 14th.
(c) 20th.
(d) 27th.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.

2. The hotel manager, ___________________, immediately ordered his telephone operators to notify the operators in all the hotels on the north and central coast.

3. The shark attacked, biting Charles where?

4. The juvenile shark that killed Bruder had probably been frightened off by what?

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

(see the answer key)

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