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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 21 and 22 and Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The great white can grow to _____________ feet or more and weigh several tons.
(a) Twenty.
(b) Thirty.
(c) Forty-five.
(d) Ten.

2. Why might the shark not have been hungry for a short while?
(a) It did not like the taste of humans.
(b) It was ill.
(c) It may have been storing parts of the two men it had half-eaten, much like a camel stores water.
(d) It had digested human body parts.

3. ______________________ 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.

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

5. 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.
(a) Beast.
(b) Rogue.
(c) Monster.
(d) Maniac.

Short Answer Questions

1. Dr. Sir Victor Coppleson, __________________ surgeon, coined the phrase "rogue shark."

2. On July ________, 1916, Renny Cartan, Jr., his cousin Johnson Cartan, and some other friends took off for the swimming hole at the nearby creek.

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

4. As beach goers ran in to try to pull Charles ashore, the shark with bits of Charles' flesh in his mouth, did what?

5. As the young shark develops, his hunger turns him toward prey such as _______________.

(see the answer key)

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