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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13 and 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Though young sharks can seem slow-moving, when stimulated they can reach speeds of ____________ miles per hour.
(a) Fifty.
(b) Thirty.
(c) Seventy.
(d) Twenty.

2. The hotel manager, ___________________, immediately ordered his telephone operators to notify the operators in all the hotels on the north and central coast.
(a) Damian B. Parsons.
(b) Darrel B. Pickering.
(c) David B. Plumer.
(d) Daniel B. Plickard.

3. 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.

4. Some hotel guests worried about the incident, others were sure the incident had been exaggerated and believed what had happened to the young man?
(a) He had a heart attack.
(b) He had drowned.
(c) He had a cramp and had to swim to the shore.
(d) He had been chased by a shark.

5. A shark can smell prey ___________________ away.
(a) A mile.
(b) A quarter-mile.
(c) A half-mile.
(d) One hundred feet.

Short Answer Questions

1. The wealthy family of Dr. Eugene Vansant rode in a Pullman with their nannies and servants for a stay in ______________.

2. Bruder's injuries and death were recorded and attributed to what?

3. The very next day, Gertrude Schuyler, from _________________, and her family were at a resort across from the spot where the shark had killed Charles Vansant.

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

5. News spread of the horrific incident. Some fishermen swore what?

(see the answer key)

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