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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. How much higher was Biglow's erg score than his teammates' scores?
(a) 12 percent.
(b) 10 percent.
(c) 5 percent.
(d) 7 percent.

2. How much weight could Lewis lift in the dead lift?
(a) 375 pounds.
(b) 135 pounds.
(c) 405 pounds.
(d) 525 pounds.

3. Before the 1984 Olympics, when was the last time that a bronze had been won by an American in the single sculls?
(a) 1964.
(b) 1956.
(c) 1960.
(d) 1952.

4. Who did Biglow go to visit after the finals?
(a) His mother.
(b) Grandmother Biglow.
(c) His sister.
(d) His father.

5. How tall was Pertti Karppinen?
(a) 6 ft. 6 in.
(b) 6 ft. 4 in.
(c) 6 ft. 7 in.
(d) 6 ft. 5 in.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money was donated to dam a stream to make the lake where the 1984 Olympic trials took place?

2. What did Wood do after losing the final?

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

4. At what mark did Lewis surge ahead of Bouscaren in the finals?

5. What did Lewis pay Mitch to accompany him to Princeton?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What were some things that inspired Wood to continue rowing?

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

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

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

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

7. Why did Biglow decide to attend Yale?

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

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

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

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