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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. Twenty-six teeth are contained in the top row and ______________ in the bottom row.
(a) Twenty-two.
(b) Twenty-eight.
(c) Twenty-six.
(d) Twenty-four.

2. What happened to Charles Bruder on the way back to the shore?
(a) He begged to go after the shark.
(b) He lost consciousness.
(c) He died.
(d) He began to feel better.

3. The reporters had endless questions about what?
(a) Sea creatures.
(b) Attacks on humans by animals.
(c) Man-eating sharks.
(d) Sharks.

4. An influx of salt water to the creek did what?
(a) Confused the shark.
(b) It helped give the shark new life.
(c) Forced the shark to enter the creek.
(d) Made the shark ill.

5. The only known creatures that on rare occasions are known to attack great whites of this size are what?
(a) Seals and dolphins.
(b) Blue whales and orcas.
(c) Dolphins, sperm whales, and larger great whites.
(d) Larger great whites, sperm whales and orcas.

Short Answer Questions

1. Schleisser hauled the shark home to his taxidermy studio. The shark was ________ feet long and weighed in at 350 pounds.

2. What did Dr. William G. Schauffler immediately order?

3. The editorial noted that people had an unnatural ___________ sharks.

4. On board were the architect Stanford White, New York Sun publisher Charles Dana, and close friend ___________________.

5. The great white that attacked the swimmer in 1916 was probably born in the Atlantic around ___________.

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