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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 19 and 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The next morning, retired ______________ Thomas V. Cottrell was walking along the bank of the creek.
(a) Police Officer.
(b) Army Sergeant.
(c) Sea Captain.
(d) Navy Seal.

2. ______________________ of working-class men and women migrated across downtown Philadelphia to the coast on the first day of July 1916.
(a) Dozens.
(b) Thousands.
(c) Millions.
(d) Hundreds.

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

4. The men began launching ________________ in various parts of the creek.
(a) Dynamite blasts.
(b) Grenades.
(c) Spears.
(d) Tear gas canisters.

5. Coppleson would one day refer to these attacks as those by the "____________" of New Jersey.
(a) White shark.
(b) Mad shark.
(c) Wild shark.
(d) Crazy shark.

Short Answer Questions

1. In large part, why has the great white escaped scientific scrutiny?

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

3. What was Benjamin Everingham doing in the Asbury Avenue beach area?

4. Coppleson applied his theory to many locales around the world, including South Africa, Puerto Rico and _________________.

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.

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