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

2. A shark can smell prey ___________________ away.
(a) One hundred feet.
(b) A quarter-mile.
(c) A mile.
(d) A half-mile.

3. A sense of ___________________ is felt by the end of the first chapter.
(a) Relief.
(b) Foreboding.
(c) Excitement.
(d) Happiness.

4. 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.
(a) Very little.
(b) No.
(c) Some.
(d) A great deal of.

5. Why did the shark do this to Renny?
(a) Probably to see if he would taste good.
(b) Probably to sate his hunger.
(c) Probably to see what kind of creature he was.
(d) Probably to get a sense of his size.

Short Answer Questions

1. Despite their efforts, what happened to the beaches?

2. Beach life had deteriorated in some minds from the many young people visiting, who engaged in what?

3. Why did the other boys not believe something hit Renny in the water?

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. Mrs. Vansant was somewhat concerned about the possible ruckus on the Jersey Shore due to the hordes of visitors expected and a controversy over what?

(see the answer key)

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