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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many seconds did Biglow cut off Mills with a closing drive?
(a) 5.3 seconds.
(b) 6.2 seconds.
(c) 3.7 seconds.
(d) 4.6 seconds.

2. What stroke had Lewis and Enquist wanted to maintain in the first Olympic heat?
(a) 36 strokes.
(b) 30 strokes.
(c) 32 strokes.
(d) 34 strokes.

3. How many double races had Lewis rowed in his life, at the time he and Enquist won the gold?
(a) 9.
(b) 7.
(c) 15.
(d) 11.

4. What did Biglow send to his friends when he wrote after the Olympics?
(a) Olympic coins.
(b) Olympic rowing pins.
(c) A picture of him rowing.
(d) Olympic keychains.

5. Who was the strongest competition in the repechage at the Olympics?
(a) Canada.
(b) West Germany.
(c) Yugoslavia.
(d) Finland.

6. Where did Lewis and Enquist go to practice after telling Parker they wanted their own double?
(a) Bolgoda Lake.
(b) Greenwood Lake.
(c) Lake Stevens.
(d) Lake Cayuga.

7. Where did Biglow and a friend named Paul Most go to enter a regatta one summer?
(a) Princeton.
(b) Boston.
(c) New Haven.
(d) Philadelphia.

8. Where was Gary Reid from?
(a) Canada.
(b) New Zealand.
(c) England.
(d) Australia.

9. How many weeks of training did Bouscaren and Altekruse lose when they raced at Lucerne?
(a) 4 days.
(b) 2 weeks.
(c) 5 days.
(d) 1 week.

10. By how many seconds did Lewis and Enquist win the gold?
(a) 1.5 seconds.
(b) 3.2 seconds.
(c) 2.4 seconds.
(d) 4.7 seconds.

11. After college, where did Enquist work for a few months?
(a) At a consulting firm.
(b) On a salmon boat.
(c) For a law firm.
(d) At a bank.

12. What was Jim Dietz's father's job?
(a) Lawyer.
(b) Fisherman.
(c) Engineer.
(d) Carpenter.

13. Where is Dartmouth College located?
(a) Hanover.
(b) New Haven.
(c) Philadelphia.
(d) Boston.

14. Where would the international regatta be held after the Olympic trials?
(a) Lake Lucerne.
(b) Lake Orta.
(c) Vienna.
(d) Paris.

15. What was the highest stroke that Enquist could maintain in the single?
(a) 31.
(b) 32.
(c) 29.
(d) 27.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many weeks did Parker have to pick both the double and the quad?

2. What commercial did ABC air, suspending the scullers in mid-race?

3. Where did Bouscaren receive an offer for his residency?

4. At what point did Lewis and Enquist pull up even with the team leading the final on Sunday?

5. How low did Lewis and Enquist get their time for five-hundred-meter sprints?

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