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

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

3. What branch of service was Bouscaren's father in during World War II?
(a) Marines.
(b) Navy.
(c) Air Force.
(d) Army.

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

5. How old was Biglow when he first rowed in a single scull?
(a) 15.
(b) 12.
(c) 17.
(d) 10.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Biglow from?

2. When did Woodrow Wilson approach a philanthropist and ask for a donation for the Princeton law school?

3. What were Anthony Bouscaren's religious beliefs?

4. When a race was over and Wood had rowed at his peak, how long would it take his body to physically replenish?

5. What college did Biglow and Bouscaren row for?

Short Essay Questions

1. What adjustments did Altekruse have to make when he went from being an oarsman to a sculler?

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

3. Why didn't Bouscaren play tennis at Yale?

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

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

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

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

8. Why wasn't Brad Lewis taken seriously as a rower?

9. Why did Biglow decide to attend Yale?

10. Why didn't Biglow's grandmother want him to row in the Olympic trials?

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