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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9 and 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A new smell, the scent of _______________________, also would have piqued the interest of the shark.
(a) Children.
(b) Human waste.
(c) Fish.
(d) Dogs.

2. A sense of ___________________ is felt by the end of the first chapter.
(a) Foreboding.
(b) Excitement.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Relief.

3. Long distance swimmer, Robert W. Dowling, ________________, announced he would swim out four miles in the Atlantic--sharks be damned!
(a) Twenty.
(b) Nineteen.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Twelve.

4. Some hotel guests worried about the incident, others were sure the incident had been exaggerated and believed what had happened to the young man?
(a) He had a cramp and had to swim to the shore.
(b) He had drowned.
(c) He had a heart attack.
(d) He had been chased by a shark.

5. The shark stayed in the struggle until when?
(a) It was shot by a man on the beach.
(b) Its underside was scraping the sand.
(c) It decided it was full.
(d) It was attacked by those helping Charles.

Short Answer Questions

1. On board were the architect Stanford White, New York Sun publisher Charles Dana, and close friend ___________________.

2. Bruder boasted that he was not afraid of sharks. Why was he not afraid?

3. The next day, articles appeared in both the New York Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer about the shark attack. Where were these articles located?

4. 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.

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

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