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

2. The shark was estimated to be _______ feet long and weighed around 500 pounds.
(a) Ten.
(b) Fifteen.
(c) Five.
(d) Eight.

3. He was finally able to get away from it and was carrying what was left of Lester to the shore when what happened?
(a) The shark started to swim away from him.
(b) He jumped back into the water to catch the shark.
(c) The shark attacked again.
(d) He collapsed.

4. _________________ 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.
(a) Thirty.
(b) Thirty-five.
(c) Forty.
(d) Forty-five.

5. The damage to Bruder was so severe, a _________________ injury, that even with modern medical procedures, he could not have been saved.
(a) Significant.
(b) Premier.
(c) Code Red.
(d) Class one.

Short Answer Questions

1. Suddenly, Joseph was being pulled down by his leg. His brother Michael and a rescuer, Jacob Lefferts, both leaped in the water and tried to wrest Joseph from the shark's mouth. They were able to pull Joseph out and onto whose boat?

2. This editorial cited the fact that twenty-five years had passed since Oelrichs' swim with the sharks and _____ evidence had come forth of a shark attacking a man.

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

4. A new smell, the scent of _______________________, also would have piqued the interest of the shark.

5. Why did the shark do this to Renny?

(see the answer key)

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