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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What elective course did Biglow take at Dartmouth?
(a) A course on sports medicine.
(b) A course on global health.
(c) A course on stress.
(d) A course on on wilderness medicine.

2. How long did the record that Cunningham and his crew set for a twelve-boat regatta stand?
(a) Over 2 decades.
(b) 15 years.
(c) 45 years.
(d) Over 3 decades.

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

4. At what point did Lewis and Enquist pull up even with the team leading the final on Sunday?
(a) 300 meters.
(b) 200 meters.
(c) 400 meters.
(d) 500 meters.

5. After college, where did Enquist work for a few months?
(a) At a bank.
(b) For a law firm.
(c) On a salmon boat.
(d) At a consulting firm.

6. How many oarsmen were invited to the team rowing camp?
(a) 18.
(b) 20.
(c) 14.
(d) 16.

7. When would there be an additional Olympic trial at Princeton for young men who had the right to challenge the camp boats?
(a) June.
(b) May.
(c) July.
(d) August.

8. Which of Biglow's years in high school did he not row?
(a) Sophomore.
(b) Senior.
(c) Junior.
(d) Freshman.

9. How many weeks did Parker have to pick both the double and the quad?
(a) 5 weeks.
(b) 4 weeks.
(c) 6 weeks.
(d) 7 weeks.

10. Who did Lewis want to row a double with in the fall after the Olympics?
(a) Dietz.
(b) Wood.
(c) Bouscaren.
(d) Enquist.

11. Whose flagpole did Lewis want to desecrate?
(a) East German.
(b) West German.
(c) Yugoslav.
(d) Finland.

12. Where did Bouscaren receive an offer for his residency?
(a) St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center.
(b) Greenwich Hospital.
(c) New York Hospital.
(d) University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.

13. How many seconds was Biglow behind Mills with five hundred meters to go?
(a) 7.4 seconds.
(b) 4.8 seconds.
(c) 6.2 seconds.
(d) 8.1 seconds.

14. Who was stroking the quad at the finals?
(a) Charley Bracken.
(b) Paul Enquist.
(c) Brad Lewis.
(d) Tiff Wood.

15. Where did Lewis go immediately after he and Enquist became the American double?
(a) Connecticut.
(b) Washington.
(c) California.
(d) Massachusetts.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Lewis nickname Altekruse's and Bouscaren's boat?

2. When Enquist and Lewis rowed a double at Duisburg, what place did they take?

3. What did Lewis drive during the time that he and Enquist were practicing the double in 1983?

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

5. How long had Parker been pessimistic about the chances for the Bouscaren-Altekruse double?

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