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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3 and 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Later scientists attributed Oelrichs' success to what probability?
(a) The sharks were small, non-aggressive species.
(b) The great whites were not hungry at the time he jumped in the water.
(c) The sharks were juvenile great whites.
(d) He thought a school of orcas were actually sharks.

2. What were women doing that was scandalous to many?
(a) They were talking to boys.
(b) They were not enjoying the beach environment.
(c) They were exposing their arms and legs and wearing scandalous clinging wool suits.
(d) They were going on dates.

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

4. Has the force of the great white's bite ever been measured?
(a) Yes, but the evidence is not solid.
(b) Yes, but the measurement was made on a juvenile shark.
(c) Yes.
(d) No.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The editorial noted that people had an unnatural ___________ sharks.

2. The owner and captain of the yacht was the wealthy shipping mogul Hermann Oelrichs. One of Oelrichs' goals was to debunk the myth that sharks were man-eaters. He felt certain that their bad publicity stemmed from pure fantasy. He had offered a reward of ____________ for proof that any person had ever been attacked by a shark.

3. This editorial cited the fact that twenty-five years had passed since Oelrichs' swim with the sharks and _____ evidence had come forth of a shark attacking a man.

4. The only known evidence of a shark attack had been what?

5. Beach life had deteriorated in some minds from the many young people visiting, who engaged in what?

(see the answer key)

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