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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 17 and 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did the other boys not believe something hit Renny in the water?
(a) He often exaggerated.
(b) He always lied.
(c) They had not seen anything.
(d) They thought he was scraped by a branch.

2. Why is it difficult to catch serial-killing man-eating sharks?
(a) The water conceals their crimes and aids in their escape.
(b) Men do not know much about sea creatures.
(c) These sharks are very intelligent and devious.
(d) The sharks are shy.

3. Of what was Bruder certain regarding Vansant?
(a) He had been killed by a shark.
(b) He was not killed by a shark.
(c) He had not actually died.
(d) He had drowned.

4. As beach goers ran in to try to pull Charles ashore, the shark with bits of Charles' flesh in his mouth, did what?
(a) Swam away.
(b) Went after another swimmer.
(c) Backed off and seemed to wait.
(d) Attacked again.

5. Was it common to see sharks along the Atlantic coast?
(a) Yes, very frequently.
(b) No.
(c) Yes.
(d) Yes, but rarely.

Short Answer Questions

1. The _______________ Hotel's young bell captain, Charles Bruder, decided to slip away for an afternoon swim.

2. Dr. Nichols, after viewing Bruder's wounds, concluded what?

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

4. Most of the flesh on Fisher's thigh from his hip to his knee was gone. When a doctor was finally rounded up, he observed that the bone was not severed but his ____________ artery was bleeding profusely.

5. What was Benjamin Everingham doing in the Asbury Avenue beach area?

(see the answer key)

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