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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5 and 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. People on the beach noticed what about Charles?
(a) His dog was paddling behind him.
(b) A dark fin was following closely behind him.
(c) He looked fatigued.
(d) He looked like he had been attacked.

4. In July _________, the luxury yacht, Hildegard, set off on an outing in the Atlantic off the New York coast.
(a) 1881.
(b) 1891.
(c) 1918.
(d) 1901.

5. In 1915, a _______________ editorial was written entitled, "Let Us Do Justice To Sharks."
(a) New York Times.
(b) USA Today.
(c) New York Post.
(d) New Yorker.

Short Answer Questions

1. The shark was estimated to be _______ feet long and weighed around 500 pounds.

2. The shark attacked, biting Charles where?

3. A new smell, the scent of _______________________, also would have piqued the interest of the shark.

4. 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.

5. By ____________ years of age, the white shark nearly doubles in size, making it nearly invincible in its environment.

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