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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Shealy was on the Harvard crew, by how many lengths did Harvard beat the University of Washington?
(a) 4.
(b) 1.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

2. What had the American scullers won for the past three years, before the 1984 Olympic trials?
(a) Third place.
(b) First place.
(c) Fourth place.
(d) Second place.

3. When had Christopher Wood been the captain of the Olympic rowing team?
(a) 1976.
(b) 1972.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1968.

4. How wide was a rowing scull?
(a) 17 inches.
(b) 12 inches.
(c) 19 inches.
(d) 15 inches.

5. Where were the Olympic trials held in Chapter 1?
(a) Hartford, Connecticut.
(b) Boston, Massachusetts.
(c) New Haven, Connecticut.
(d) Princeton, New Jersey.

6. How many hours did Wood practice?
(a) As many as 475 hours.
(b) About 300 hours.
(c) About 700 hours.
(d) As many as 500 hours.

7. How much money could Lewis make in three or four months framing houses?
(a) $5,000 to $6,000.
(b) $6,000 or $7,000.
(c) $8,000 to $9,000.
(d) $3,000 to $4,000.

8. How much would Wood have allowed Biglow to pay to rent the new scull that he bought?
(a) $75 a week.
(b) $15 a week.
(c) $50 a week.
(d) $25 a week.

9. How many liters of oxygen could a world-class rower take in per minute?
(a) 6 liters.
(b) 4 liters.
(c) 3 liters.
(d) 5 liters.

10. Who were two well-known teammates that Wood had crewed with in college?
(a) Phillips and Minner.
(b) Shealy and Cashin.
(c) Bucklin and Carpenter.
(d) Ryan and Belinn.

11. How many hours did Wood exercise in a year?
(a) Over 700.
(b) As many 800.
(c) As many as 600.
(d) About 400.

12. How much money was brought into town when the Olympic trials were held in Chapter 1?
(a) $6 million.
(b) $7 million.
(c) $5 million.
(d) $10 million.

13. How old was Bouscaren's mother when she died?
(a) 51.
(b) 54.
(c) 39.
(d) 46.

14. What was Biglow's grade point average when he graduated from Yale?
(a) 2.7.
(b) 3.1
(c) 2.9.
(d) 3.3.

15. How much did Biglow weigh?
(a) 185 pounds.
(b) 200 pounds.
(c) 175 pounds.
(d) 190 pounds.

Short Answer Questions

1. By which decade was the marriage between sports and television virtually complete?

2. How much money was donated to dam a stream to make the lake where the 1984 Olympic trials took place?

3. How much weight could Lewis lift in the dead lift?

4. How fast could a scull move per hour?

5. Who was President the year that the U.S. boycotted the summer Olympic games?

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