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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. There were some ______________ people in the water the day following the attack on Charles Vansant.
(a) 5,000.
(b) 500.
(c) 500,000.
(d) 50,000.

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

3. What rumors were rampant?
(a) Sharks were patrolling offshore.
(b) The water was polluted.
(c) The young people were causing problems on the beach.
(d) German U-boats were patrolling offshore.

4. What were women doing that was scandalous to many?
(a) They were talking to boys.
(b) They were not enjoying the beach environment.
(c) They were exposing their arms and legs and wearing scandalous clinging wool suits.
(d) They were going on dates.

5. Bruder boasted that he was not afraid of sharks. Why was he not afraid?
(a) He believed he was stronger than a shark.
(b) He did not believe in sharks.
(c) He had swum with sharks off the coast of California.
(d) He believed he could out-swim a shark.

6. The _______________ Hotel's young bell captain, Charles Bruder, decided to slip away for an afternoon swim.
(a) Hilton.
(b) Lenox.
(c) Sussex.
(d) Essex.

7. What might have been the reason for the hotel to keep down word of the incident?
(a) To avoid a law suit.
(b) To avoid depressing the tourist trade.
(c) To see if the boy had been attacked by a shark or had drowned.
(d) To avoid mass chaos and fear.

8. The people irrationally linked the great white attack to what?
(a) Unruly teenagers.
(b) German U-Boats.
(c) The U.S. Navy.
(d) God's wrath.

9. Many years later, ichthyologist George Burgess concluded that the shark was a _________, serial killer, but in the rhetoric of the day, the shark was a sea monster.
(a) Rogue.
(b) Maniac.
(c) Monster.
(d) Beast.

10. The great white that attacked the swimmer in 1916 was probably born in the Atlantic around ___________.
(a) 1900.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1908.

11. The next day, articles appeared in both the New York Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer about the shark attack. Where were these articles located?
(a) On back pages.
(b) On front pages.
(c) In the middle of the newspapers.
(d) Nowhere.

12. _________________ 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-five.
(b) Forty-five.
(c) Forty.
(d) Thirty.

13. The editorial noted that people had an unnatural ___________ sharks.
(a) Fear of.
(b) Power over.
(c) Anger toward.
(d) Interest in.

14. Newly born white sharks measure up to _______ feet and weigh up to eight-five pounds.
(a) Eight.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Ten.
(d) Five.

15. The shark that attacked in 1916 had returned from the southern waters where he had suffered in his competition with many larger predators. He was tossed northward by what?
(a) The smell of humans.
(b) A strong hurricane.
(c) The strong current of the Gulf Stream.
(d) A tropical storm.

Short Answer Questions

1. By the time Oelrichs died in __________, no proof of the shark's danger to man had been produced.

2. After the shark attacked, what had happened to Bruder?

3. What did the swimmers do after they learned what danger they had been in?

4. Who ordered everyone out of the water?

5. The only known evidence of a shark attack had been what?

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