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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 21 and 22 and Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why might the shark not have been hungry for a short while?
(a) It had digested human body parts.
(b) It may have been storing parts of the two men it had half-eaten, much like a camel stores water.
(c) It was ill.
(d) It did not like the taste of humans.

2. 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 attacked again.
(b) He collapsed.
(c) He jumped back into the water to catch the shark.
(d) The shark started to swim away from him.

3. 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.
(a) Pulmonary.
(b) Femoral.
(c) Elastic.
(d) Systemic.

4. People on the beach noticed what about Charles?
(a) His dog was paddling behind him.
(b) A dark fin was following closely behind him.
(c) He looked fatigued.
(d) He looked like he had been attacked.

5. Schleisser hauled the shark home to his taxidermy studio. The shark was ________ feet long and weighed in at 350 pounds.
(a) 11 1/2.
(b) 9 1/2.
(c) 7 ½.
(d) 13 1/2.

Short Answer Questions

1. The attack made the ________________ in the newspapers.

2. What was significant about the popular black and dark blue bathing suits?

3. Noted _________________ Dr. John Treadwell Nichols was called in to investigate the attack.

4. What had drawn the shark?

5. Coppleson would one day refer to these attacks as those by the "____________" of New Jersey.

(see the answer key)

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