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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. Where did Bouscaren go to medical school?
(a) Stanford University Medical School.
(b) Cornell Medical School.
(c) Harvard Medical School.
(d) Dartmouth Medical School.

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

3. Who did the U.S. hockey team beat in the 1980 winter Olympics?
(a) Russia.
(b) France.
(c) England.
(d) Germany.

4. How old was Christopher Wood during the time of the 1984 Olympic game trials?
(a) 27.
(b) 23.
(c) 31.
(d) 24.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long had Harry Parker been Wood's coach on and off?

2. Where were the Olympic trials held in Chapter 1?

3. How much did Wood and his teammates once spend apiece to stay in a room at the Princeton Motor Lodge?

4. When Shealy was on the Harvard crew, by how many lengths did Harvard beat the University of Washington?

5. What job had Wood had in Hartford?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Lewis support himself?

2. Why did Mitch accompany Lewis to Princeton?

3. Why did Bouscaren grow up a single child with a single parent?

4. What were some of the jobs that Wood had held since he graduated from college?

5. Why had Lewis's home life not been an easy one?

6. Why were the American teams at a disadvantage competing against the Europeans in the Olympic games?

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

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

9. What questions did Biglow ask Parker when he called him before he returned to Cambridge?

10. How would Wood's coach Harry Parker accept it if Wood said that he no longer wanted to be a sculler?

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