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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7 and 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The thousands of ________________ that cover their skin aid in their maneuverability and speed.
(a) Scales.
(b) Derma.
(c) Denticles.
(d) Barnacles.

3. By ____________ years of age, the white shark nearly doubles in size, making it nearly invincible in its environment.
(a) Fifteen.
(b) Five.
(c) Ten.
(d) Eight.

4. The only known evidence of a shark attack had been what?
(a) There has been no evidence.
(b) Tall tales by sailors and fishermen.
(c) A death certificate saying that someone had died from a shark bite.
(d) A blurry photo of a shark ready to chomp down on a man.

5. 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) Maniac.
(b) Beast.
(c) Monster.
(d) Rogue.

Short Answer Questions

1. The shark stayed in the struggle until when?

2. There was disagreement among the public as to what killed Charles. Some thought a shark was the culprit, others were convinced that _____________ was the predator.

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

4. The only known creatures that on rare occasions are known to attack great whites of this size are what?

5. Newly born white sharks measure up to _______ feet and weigh up to eight-five pounds.

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