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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who ordered everyone out of the water?
(a) The President of the United States.
(b) Hotel lifeguards.
(c) The Coast Guard.
(d) Hotel management.

2. The great white, even in modern times, remains what?
(a) A significant danger to man.
(b) Of no interest to man.
(c) A creature of interest.
(d) Much of a mystery.

3. The Vansants stayed at the stylish _____________ Hotel, where the upper crust enjoyed their respite.
(a) Essex.
(b) Edmonton.
(c) Engleside.
(d) Eagles Nest.

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

5. There were some ______________ people in the water the day following the attack on Charles Vansant.
(a) 50,000.
(b) 500,000.
(c) 500.
(d) 5,000.

6. What had appeared in the paper about the attack?
(a) Some information in the middle of the paper.
(b) An article on the front page.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A small article on the back page.

7. Has the force of the great white's bite ever been measured?
(a) Yes, but the evidence is not solid.
(b) Yes, but the measurement was made on a juvenile shark.
(c) No.
(d) Yes.

8. The _______________ Hotel's young bell captain, Charles Bruder, decided to slip away for an afternoon swim.
(a) Sussex.
(b) Lenox.
(c) Essex.
(d) Hilton.

9. _________________ miles up the coast from Beach Haven, the New Essex and Sussex Hotel occupied a large piece of real estate on the coast of Spring Lake.
(a) Forty-five.
(b) Forty.
(c) Thirty.
(d) Thirty-five.

10. The people irrationally linked the great white attack to what?
(a) God's wrath.
(b) The U.S. Navy.
(c) German U-Boats.
(d) Unruly teenagers.

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

12. The damage to Bruder was so severe, a _________________ injury, that even with modern medical procedures, he could not have been saved.
(a) Premier.
(b) Significant.
(c) Class one.
(d) Code Red.

13. What did Dowling swear?
(a) He would catch the shark.
(b) He would help to save those attacked by sharks.
(c) He would never swim in the ocean again.
(d) He would never swim again.

14. The shark had traveled ____________ miles north from Beach Haven.
(a) Thirty.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Fifty.
(d) Forty.

15. Charles sensed that he was being followed and probably felt he had reached safety. Why did he feel safe?
(a) He thought the shark following him was a figment of his imagination.
(b) He thought he could swim faster than the shark.
(c) He was in water that was only three and a half feet deep.
(d) He believed sharks were not dangerous.

Short Answer Questions

1. Beach life had deteriorated in some minds from the many young people visiting, who engaged in what?

2. For what was the shark waiting?

3. Who does the boy miss at the beginning of the book?

4. Bruder's injuries and death were recorded and attributed to what?

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

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