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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. Who ordered everyone out of the water?
(a) Hotel lifeguards.
(b) The Coast Guard.
(c) The President of the United States.
(d) Hotel management.

2. Coppleson cited the North Atlantic attacks of 1916 as those of a rogue shark, even though many American experts maintained what belief?
(a) The deaths of the swimmers were not caused by sharks.
(b) The swimmers drowned.
(c) The deaths of the swimmers were caused by a shark that could not be considered a rogue shark.
(d) The deaths of the swimmers were caused by orcas.

3. 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.
(a) Four or five.
(b) Three or four.
(c) Two or three.
(d) Five or six.

4. Benjamin Everingham had been instructed to bring a rifle and ax along. Why did he not bring any weapons?
(a) He did not feel comfortable carrying weapons.
(b) He thought there was no real threat.
(c) He could not find a rifle or ax.
(d) He forgot.

5. Coppleson felt there was evidence that if a shark experiences killing or mauling humans, he does what?
(a) Becomes very ill.
(b) Never attacks a human again.
(c) Goes in search of more human prey.
(d) Remembers the smell of humans and avoids them.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What probably made Charles more vulnerable?

3. The first to reach Charles was who?

4. The people irrationally linked the great white attack to what?

5. 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.

(see the answer key)

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