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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Karppinen first win an Olympic gold medal?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1976.
(c) 1972.
(d) 1980.

2. What year did Biglow graduate from college?
(a) 1980.
(b) 1978.
(c) 1977.
(d) 1979.

3. What year did the U.S. boycott the summer Olympic games?
(a) 1972.
(b) 1976.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1968.

4. What did Lewis pay Mitch to accompany him to Princeton?
(a) $300.
(b) $500.
(c) $400.
(d) $600.

5. What sport did Bouscaren try when he first came to Yale?
(a) Football.
(b) Baseball.
(c) Soccer.
(d) Tennis.

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

7. How many strokes did Wood take in the final and realize that he was rowing the wrong race?
(a) 15.
(b) 20.
(c) 25.
(d) 10.

8. 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.

9. As the 1984 Olympics approached, how long had it been since the United States had had a serious chance to win an Olympic medal?
(a) 30 years.
(b) 15 years.
(c) 25 years.
(d) 40 years.

10. What was Biglow's first choice for college?
(a) Strayer University.
(b) Broward College.
(c) Boston University.
(d) Williams College.

11. On the Monday after the finals, which country pulled out of the 1984 Olympics?
(a) Latvia.
(b) Soviet Union.
(c) West Germany.
(d) Lithuania.

12. Which cities were the most serious rowing cities in America?
(a) Boston and Philadelphia.
(b) Hartford and New Haven.
(c) Seattle and Portland.
(d) New York and Washington, D.C.

13. By which decade was the marriage between sports and television virtually complete?
(a) 1980s.
(b) 1970s.
(c) 1960s.
(d) 1950s.

14. In what magazine did Lewis read an article about Wood?
(a) Sports Illustrated.
(b) Newsweek.
(c) Time.
(d) Ultrasport.

15. What college did Wood oar for?
(a) Boston University.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Princeton.
(d) Yale.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of a business did Wood work for after leaving Hartford?

2. What was the name of the day school that Biglow attended?

3. How much did Wood and Altekruse spend when they drove from Cambridge to the 1984 Olympic game trials?

4. When had Christopher Wood been a spare on an Olympic team, before 1984?

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

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