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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. After how many months of freehand exercise can you safely enter a weight training gym?

2. What exercise is performed on a bench with a padded lever bar at one end?

3. How many seconds of rest should you have between each accelerated training exercise set?

4. In what freehand exercise do you touch the floor only with the chest, hands, and feet?

5. What factors have influenced the rapid evolution of bodybuilding in the 1970's?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe two considerations when choosing the amount of weight with which to train in accelerated progressive resistance weight training.

2. In Part One, Chapter Seven, describe the benefits received by Arnold and Joe Weider after Arnold comes to America under Weider's sponsorship.

3. In Part Two, Chapter Five, what factors does Arnold say are influencing the rapid evolution of bodybuilding?

4. What are the three pairs of workout days used with accelerated progressive resistance weight training?

5. What two purposes are served by chin-ups behind the neck and rowing with the bar?

6. Why is soreness such an important sign when one is performing weight resistance training?

7. What muscle groups are worked on Mondays and Thursdays in a weight training program?

8. What foods make good sources of protein, an important factor for a bodybuilder?

9. What are two activities that you should perform prior to a weightlifting workout?

10. After his year in America, how has Arnold's role in bodybuilding shifted?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Arnold's parents clearly do not understand his choice of bodybuilding as a vocation and express disapproval in various ways.

Discuss the reasons why Arnold's father limits his time at the gym instead of forbidding Arnold to go to the gym at all.

Do you think that Arnold's decision to build a gym at home is a compromise? What do you think it is about his relationship with his father that caused his father not to prohibit gym attendance entirely, and why is Arnold willing to compromise by building the home gym?

Essay Topic 2

As a teenager, Arnold has an unfulfilled need for recognition. After meeting men who serve as role models at the gym in Graz, he realizes that becoming a bodybuilder can provide that recognition.

Discuss reasons why men who exercise at a gym and are much older than Arnold emerge as sources of inspiration for a teenager who is hungry for recognition.

Why does bodybuilding seem to be an unlikely choice for a teenager? Discuss the appeal of bodybuilding as a vehicle for Arnold to gain recognition. If Arnold's experience occurred now, do you think bodybuilding would be a logical choice? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

With Barbara, Arnold enters into his first positive, longer term relationship with a woman in America. But after several years, she leaves him when she decides he isn't capable of being in a committed relationship.

Explain why you think Arnold is unable to make the compromises necessary to have a career and a rewarding relationship at the same time.

With the disappointment of the breakup, discuss what Arnold learns about relationships based on his two years with Barbara.

Do you see evidence later in the book that Arnold has used what he learned from this relationship in his future endeavors?

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