View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was in charge of the cookhouse for the Washington crew when they arrived for the race at Poughkeepsie in 1936?
(a) Wink Winslow.
(b) Evanda May Calimar.
(c) Joyce Simnars.
(d) Frank G. Gorrie.

2. What crews were the University of Washington boys assigned to race for their preliminary regatta at the 1936 Olympics?
(a) France, Japan, Czechoslovakia, and Great Britain.
(b) Russia, Italy, France, and Great Britain.
(c) Germany, Italy, and Argentina.
(d) China, Japan, and Ireland.

3. What was Chuck Day's father's profession?
(a) He was a shipbuilder.
(b) He was a butcher.
(c) He was a professor.
(d) He was a dentist.

4. What two lanes of the racecourse at Grunau were exposed to prevailing winds and could be at times unrowable?
(a) Lanes 3 and 4.
(b) Lanes 7 and 8.
(c) Lanes 5 and 6.
(d) Lanes 1 and 2.

5. Who was the senior that Ulbrickson swapped out for George Morry as coxswain on the sophomore boat at Poughkeepsie in 1935?
(a) Ed Stanley.
(b) George Hunt.
(c) Russell Callow.
(d) Wink Winslow.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the lake where the Olympic rowing, canoeing, and kayaking events were held in the 1936 Olympics?

2. Who was the stroke on the German crew at the 1936 Olympics?

3. What was the theme of the seventh annual rally staged at Nuremberg by the Nazi Party in September of 1935?

4. How many crews competed for the right to go to Berlin's 1936 Olympics in Princeton?

5. When the author compare's the coxswain's role in a boat to football in Part 4: Touching the Divine, Chapter 13, he says that the coxswain would comprise what roles on a football field?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where did the American rowing crews lodge and train during the 1936 Summer Olympics? How is this setting described by the author?

2. Whom did Joe Rantz befriend while working at the Grand Coulee Dam site? How are these individuals described by the author?

3. Where did Joe Rantz live while working at the Grand Coulee Dam site? How is this setting described?

4. How does the author describe Adolf Hitler's reaction when the announcement was made of the outcome of men's eights rowing event at the Olympics?

5. How does the author describe the American rowing team's performance at their final race in the 1936 Summer Olympics? What strategies were used?

6. What ship did the University of Washington crew take to Europe for the 1936 Summer Olympics? How is the setting of the ship described?

7. How does the author describe the regatta at Poughkeepsie in 1935? How did the University of Washington perform?

8. What conflicts arose in the U.S. and other countries regarding Germany hosting the 1936 Summer Olympics? How were these conflicts resolved?

9. How did the University of Washington crew feel as they prepared to depart for the regatta in Poughkeepsie in Part 4: Touching the Divine, Chapter 14?

10. What did Bobby Moch's father warn him of when he knew that Bobby would be going to Berlin for the 1936 Olympics? Why?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,053 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample