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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6 & 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What incident caused Coach Wooden to refer to the coach/player relationship as a father/son relationship?
(a) Kicking a player off the team for having a bad attitude.
(b) Watching his team lose the championship game.
(c) Taking an injured player to the hospital.
(d) Pulling a star player out of the championship game.

2. How did Coach Wooden deal with players who stood up to him?
(a) He tried to understand the player's point of view.
(b) He sent the player to his teammates.
(c) He kicked the player off the team.
(d) He sent the player to the assistant coach.

3. Who loaned Wooden some money for his wedding?
(a) Coach Curtis.
(b) Wooden's father.
(c) Nellie's father.
(d) Nellie's best friend's father.

4. What moment does Coach Wooden refer to as "the peak" of his career?
(a) A conversation he has with Fred Slaughter after a game.
(b) Making it to the NCAA championship game for the first time.
(c) Receiving his job at UCLA.
(d) Watching Walt Hazzard score the winning basket at a champanionship game.

5. Why did Nellie and Coach Wooden break up several times during high school?
(a) Her father did not like him.
(b) They argued a lot.
(c) She wanted to go out dancing and he couldn't.
(d) His friends did not like her.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Wooden lose all the money he had saved?

2. What did Coach Wooden's brother do to him as a child that make him very angry?

3. What signal did Coach Wooden give to Nellie before each game when he was a coach?

4. What coaching concept applied by Coach Curtis did Coach Wooden disagree with?

5. How did Nellie and Wooden celebrate after their wedding ceremony?

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