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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. Bruder's injuries and death were recorded and attributed to what?
(a) Fish bite.
(b) Unknown sources.
(c) Shark bite.
(d) Orca bite.

2. What might have been the reason for the hotel to keep down word of the incident?
(a) To avoid depressing the tourist trade.
(b) To avoid mass chaos and fear.
(c) To see if the boy had been attacked by a shark or had drowned.
(d) To avoid a law suit.

3. The juvenile shark that killed Bruder had probably been frightened off by what?
(a) Helicopters.
(b) The rescue boat.
(c) The sounds of men.
(d) Bruder.

4. The hotel manager, ___________________, immediately ordered his telephone operators to notify the operators in all the hotels on the north and central coast.
(a) Darrel B. Pickering.
(b) David B. Plumer.
(c) Daniel B. Plickard.
(d) Damian B. Parsons.

5. The man the reporters visited was director of what?
(a) Liberty Science Center.
(b) The Sony Wonder Lab.
(c) The Rose Center.
(d) The American Museum of Natural History.

Short Answer Questions

1. Noted _________________ Dr. John Treadwell Nichols was called in to investigate the attack.

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

3. The _______________ Hotel's young bell captain, Charles Bruder, decided to slip away for an afternoon swim.

4. In most cases, white sharks dislike the taste of humans and do what?

5. Coppleson felt there was evidence that if a shark experiences killing or mauling humans, he does what?

(see the answer key)

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