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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did some think had killed Charles Bruder?
(a) Another person.
(b) The loch ness monster.
(c) Another sea animal like a swordfish or turtle.
(d) Another sea animal like an orca or a dolphin.

2. While the young shark is off the coast of Florida, it may be caught in the warm Gulf Stream currents, which does what to the shark?
(a) The high temperature makes it uncomfortable and struggle to hunt and feed.
(b) The high temperature disorients the shark.
(c) The high temperature makes it hungry for human flesh.
(d) The high temperature makes it irritable and hungry.

3. What did Dowling swear?
(a) He would never swim in the ocean again.
(b) He would never swim again.
(c) He would catch the shark.
(d) He would help to save those attacked by sharks.

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

5. The Vansants stayed at the stylish _____________ Hotel, where the upper crust enjoyed their respite.
(a) Eagles Nest.
(b) Engleside.
(c) Edmonton.
(d) Essex.

Short Answer Questions

1. Charles sensed that he was being followed and probably felt he had reached safety. Why did he feel safe?

2. The headline in the Times read, "_____________________."

3. For what was the shark waiting?

4. Eugene and Louisa Vansant did what with their daughters at dusk while their eldest child, Charles, romped with the family dog in the waters off the beach?

5. 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.

Short Essay Questions

1. Why might the hotel have kept Charles' death a secret?

2. How had beach life changed over the years? How might this also have played a role in the chance for shark attacks?

3. Why does the great white still remain much of a mystery today?

4. What was the official report after Charles Bruder's death? What was done as this report was being filed?

5. When word spread about the attack on Charles Vansant, what did many hotel guests think?

6. What might have drawn this particular shark north?

7. What was done for Bruder? Was this adequate? What there anything else that could have been done for him? Why or why not?

8. What about swimmers specifically at this time helped sharks to believe humans were actually sea creatures? Would this be a problem today? Why or why not?

9. How did shark attacks become more possible in the summer of 1916?

10. Describe the teeth of a shark. Why might they be like this?

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