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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 17 and 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Suddenly, Joseph was being pulled down by his leg. His brother Michael and a rescuer, Jacob Lefferts, both leaped in the water and tried to wrest Joseph from the shark's mouth. They were able to pull Joseph out and onto whose boat?
(a) Burlew's.
(b) Renny Cartan's.
(c) Fisher's.
(d) Captain Cottrell's.

2. As Gertrude stroked along parallel to the coastline, what happened to her?
(a) She was suddenly pulled under water.
(b) She was suddenly attacked by a shark.
(c) Nothing.
(d) She felt a sharp pain in her side.

3. What happened to Charles Bruder on the way back to the shore?
(a) He began to feel better.
(b) He died.
(c) He lost consciousness.
(d) He begged to go after the shark.

4. Noted _________________ Dr. John Treadwell Nichols was called in to investigate the attack.
(a) Herpetologist.
(b) Ichthyologist.
(c) Ornithologist.
(d) Mammalogist.

5. The headline in the Times read, "_____________________."
(a) Dies From Drowning.
(b) Dies After Attack by Shark.
(c) Dies After Attack by Fish.
(d) Dies From Too Much Fun on the Beach.

Short Answer Questions

1. ________________ were strapped to the boats as gunmen stood waiting for the shark to surface.

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

3. Why might the juvenile shark that attacked the men have turned toward the coast when it reached Sandy Hook Bay on its northward migration?

4. 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.

5. While the young shark is off the coast of Florida, it may be caught in the warm Gulf Stream currents, which does what to the shark?

(see the answer key)

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