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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the only University of Washington crew member that did not put on weight while on the ship to Berlin before the Olympic Games?
(a) Royal Brougham.
(b) Vic Krulak.
(c) Joe Rantz.
(d) Don Hume.

2. How many crews competed for the right to go to Berlin's 1936 Olympics in Princeton?
(a) 6.
(b) 12.
(c) 10.
(d) 8.

3. What was the name of the Irish port where the American Olympic athletes' ship stopped on July 21, 1936?
(a) Rosslare.
(b) Cobh.
(c) Kinsale.
(d) Trivoli.

4. Who was the stroke for the British crew at the 1936 Olympics?
(a) Gordy Adam.
(b) George A. Wyman.
(c) William George Ranald Mundell Laurie.
(d) George Hunt.

5. How many eight-oared crews competed in the 1936 Olympic Games?
(a) 10.
(b) 16.
(c) 14.
(d) 6.

6. What was the name of the racing vessel that the University of Washington crew took to Poughkeepsie in 1936?
(a) The City of Seattle.
(b) The Lady Alice.
(c) The Husky Clipper.
(d) The City of Spokane.

7. What was the profession of Bobby Moch's father?
(a) He was a watchmaker and jeweler.
(b) He was a schoolteacher.
(c) He was a politician.
(d) He was a baker and chef.

8. How old was Jim Ten Eyck, the coach from Syracuse, in 1935 when Washington went to race in Poughkeepsie?
(a) 39.
(b) 55.
(c) 83.
(d) 76.

9. What is the name of the lake where the Olympic rowing, canoeing, and kayaking events were held in the 1936 Olympics?
(a) Montlake Cut.
(b) Langer See.
(c) Lake Winnepesaukee.
(d) Baalensee.

10. Who was the coach of the U.S. women's swimming team that expelled Eleanor Holm from the Olympic team due to her drinking in 1936?
(a) Vic Krulak.
(b) Avery Brundage.
(c) Wink Winslow.
(d) Gordy Adam.

11. Who was Joyce Simdars' employer that payed for her to take cooking lessons after she made an unpalatable duck a l'orange?
(a) Mrs. Brougham.
(b) Mrs. Moch.
(c) Mrs. Tellwright.
(d) Mrs. Thompson.

12. Who was the champion sculler from the 1904 Olympics that attended the 1936 Olympic trials for rowing?
(a) Jim Wray.
(b) Charlie McDonald.
(c) Constance Titus.
(d) Lloyd Saxton.

13. How many of Eleanor Holm's fellow athletes signed a petition to have her reinstated in the 1936 Olympic Games?
(a) Over 300.
(b) Less than 5.
(c) About 50.
(d) Over 200.

14. What is the name of the lakeside community in Berlin where the 1936 Olympic rowing, canoeing, and kayaking events took place?
(a) Dahlem.
(b) Mitte.
(c) Grunau.
(d) Nikolskoë.

15. What rowing crew at the 1936 Olympics was comprised entirely of police officers?
(a) The Australians.
(b) The French.
(c) The Germans.
(d) The British.

Short Answer Questions

1. How tall was the tower that was built on the site where the Maifeld had been at the Reichssportfeld?

2. In what year did Seattle's professional hockey team, the Metropolitans, become the first American team to win the Stanley Cup?

3. Who were the four crewman that had incomplete coursework and faced being declared ineligible to row at the University of Washington in May of 1936?

4. In what village were the American rowers lodged at a police training camp during the 1936 Olympics?

5. What is the central boulevard in Berlin described by the author in Part 4: Touching the Divine, Chapter 16?

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