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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sport did Harry Parker encourage rowers to take up because it built up athletic endurance?
(a) Soccer.
(b) Cross-country skiing.
(c) Sprints.
(d) Tennis.

2. What were Anthony Bouscaren's religious beliefs?
(a) Jewish.
(b) Methodist.
(c) Episcopalian.
(d) Catholic.

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

4. When did the Biglows move West?
(a) After the Spanish American War.
(b) After the Civil War.
(c) After World War II.
(d) After World War I.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the favorite to win the right to represent the United States in the single sculls for the 1984 Olympic games?

2. Who donated the money for the lake where the 1984 Olympic trials took place?

3. How much did a scull weigh?

4. What year did Biglow graduate from college?

5. Where did Bouscaren go to medical school?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Jim Dietz's history rowing competitively?

2. How did Wood feel when he was rowing in the final?

3. What was Biglow's father's idea of success?

4. Why did a sculler have to find motivation within himself?

5. Why did both Biglow and Wood want to be the single sculler in the 1984 Olympic games?

6. In what way were the rowing athletes treated differently from other Olympic hopefuls?

7. Why, when Wood was in his mid-twenties, would he ritually get ready to quit rowing and then stay on?

8. Describe Pertti Karppinen.

9. What did Fritz Hagerman, an Ohio University professor who specialized in testing athletes, believe was a reason why those who dominated in sculling were physiological freaks?

10. What caused Madison Avenue to become more interested in the Olympics?

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