Pre: The Story of America's Greatest Running Legend, Steve Prefontaine Test | Final Test - Hard

Tom Jordan
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 99 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Pre: The Story of America's Greatest Running Legend, Steve Prefontaine Test | Final Test - Hard

Tom Jordan
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 99 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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. What act did Congress pass in 1978?

2. What was felt after Steve's death?

3. What region strongly promoted track meets in the summer of 1974?

4. What was Steve's score on the physical and psychological tests?

5. What traits marked Steve's personality?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Steve relate running to art?

2. Where did Steve live in the months after college was over?

3. What was Steve's reaction to John Hall's prediction of how he would place in the LA Times Indoor Meet?

4. What did Steve do before leaving the track after winning his last race?

5. What was Steve's greatest drawback in Europe?

6. What point in his life had Steve reached when he began the 1975 track season?

7. Why were the "Stop Pre" shirts created?

8. What did Bill Alvarado do to help Steve when he discovered the accident?

9. What did going to Europe mean to American athletes in the 1970's?

10. What was Steve's 1974 Europe tour like?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss how Steve's hometown of Coos Bay felt about him.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Steve's talent as a runner.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the reaction to Steve's death.

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