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

2. On July ________, 1916, Renny Cartan, Jr., his cousin Johnson Cartan, and some other friends took off for the swimming hole at the nearby creek.
(a) 11.
(b) 29.
(c) 15.
(d) 22.

3. Nichols still maintained that an orca was responsible for the attacks. He soon realized that what would not accommodate a killer whale?
(a) The depth of the creek.
(b) The size of the creek.
(c) The fresh water of the creek.
(d) The temperature of the creek.

4. A lunar eclipse would be occurring on July _______ that year.
(a) 24th.
(b) 20th.
(c) 27th.
(d) 14th.

5. What did Fisher set up so the boy's body wouldn't wash out to sea?
(a) A patrol of men to look for the body.
(b) A cage to catch the body.
(c) A dam made from wood.
(d) A barrier of chicken wire down creek.

Short Answer Questions

1. Coppleson based his theory on the incidence of shark attacks that occurred when?

2. This doctor insisted what?

3. As the shark-patrol steered its motorboats back and forth, hunting for the shark, the shark was doing what?

4. What was done to keep swimmers safe in the Asbury Park area?

5. What had drawn the shark?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why might Bruder's legs not have been satisfying for the shark?

2. How do events in this story prove that not everyone had heard about the man-eating shark?

3. What is a rogue shark? How did this term come about?

4. What had occurred by July 9th? Why?

5. What was done to help keep swimmers safe? Was this effective? Why or why not?

6. What might have caused the shark to head north?

7. What led the shark to Matawan?

8. What was done to try to catch the shark? Why did people react this way?

9. What did Fisher do to try to get Lester's body? How did this affect Fisher? Should he have done this? Why or why not?

10. Describe what took place on July 7, 1916.

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