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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What name did Harry Parker use once when he anonymously entered the Head of the Charles regatta?
(a) R. Van Winkle.
(b) C. Dickens.
(c) T. Lazarus.
(d) L. Tolstoy.

2. When Donald Beer won an Olympic gold medal, what rowing event did he compete in?
(a) Single sculler.
(b) A Yale double.
(c) A Yale four.
(d) A Yale eight.

3. When did Karl Adam, coach of the Ratzeburg oarsmen, become an influential figure in America?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1957.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1960.

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

5. How long had Harry Parker been Wood's coach on and off?
(a) Some 20 years.
(b) Some 12 years.
(c) Some 7 years.
(d) Some 14 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What coach made the comment that Biglow was chopping wood when he was rowing?

2. On the Monday after the finals, which country pulled out of the 1984 Olympics?

3. How tall was Pertti Karppinen?

4. Where was the most revealing image that Steve Kiesling ever saw published of John Biglow?

5. Which of Biglow's years in high school did he not row?

(see the answer key)

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