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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. _______________ staff physician, Dr. William G. Schauffler, completed the official report.
(a) The Governor's.
(b) The hotel manager's.
(c) The President's.
(d) The Mayor's.

2. The ____________________ sensationalized the incident by describing in detail the gore of the attack.
(a) New Yorker.
(b) New York Times.
(c) AM New York program.
(d) New York Post.

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

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

5. The very next day, Gertrude Schuyler, from _________________, and her family were at a resort across from the spot where the shark had killed Charles Vansant.
(a) Indianapolis.
(b) Boston.
(c) New York City.
(d) Philadelphia.

Short Answer Questions

1. The next morning, retired ______________ Thomas V. Cottrell was walking along the bank of the creek.

2. Dr. Sir Victor Coppleson, __________________ surgeon, coined the phrase "rogue shark."

3. Leonard Hill planned to swim out a quarter-mile from the coast and then ________ miles due south.

4. As beach goers ran in to try to pull Charles ashore, the shark with bits of Charles' flesh in his mouth, did what?

5. Joseph Dunn, his brother Michael and their friend Jerry Hollohan in __________________, a community downstream from the town of Matawan, had missed the warnings and cut through the woods for a quick swim in the creek.

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