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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 commercial did ABC air, suspending the scullers in mid-race?
(a) McDonald's.
(b) Wendy's.
(c) Pizza Hut.
(d) Hardees.

2. What did Lewis drive during the time that he and Enquist were practicing the double in 1983?
(a) Corvette.
(b) Porsche.
(c) Lincoln.
(d) Mercedes Benz.

3. At the Olympics, whose shoes did Lewis want to fill?
(a) The East Germans.
(b) The Yugoslavs.
(c) The West Germans.
(d) The Canadians.

4. When did Enquist graduate from college?
(a) 1975.
(b) 1977.
(c) 1976.
(d) 1978.

5. After the war, where was the race that Cunningham stroked that set a record time for a twelve-boat regatta?
(a) Princeton.
(b) Seattle.
(c) New Haven.
(d) Boston.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Lewis and Enquist were paired for the double at the team camp, what had the men finished?

2. Where was Ricardo Ibarra from?

3. How many seconds did Biglow cut off Mills with a closing drive?

4. What did Lewis do a few months after the Olympics?

5. By how many seconds did Biglow beat Gary Reid in the rep?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Biglow's rowing proving to be a mystery to him and his coaches?

2. Why was Biglow glad that he chose Dartmouth Medical School?

3. Why did Lewis nickname Altekruse's and Bouscaren's boat?

4. How did Cunningham's coaching career begin in Seattle?

5. Why did Enquist tell Lewis not to get arrested and put in jail?

6. Why did Bouscaren consider turning down the offer from New York Hospital?

7. Why was it so difficult for Wood that he was chosen to be a spare by the Olympic rowing committee?

8. Why did Parker believe that he should have canceled participation in the Lucerne races?

9. Why was Wood's fall from rowing so terrible?

10. Why would the repechage at the Olympics be rowed all-out in a way usually reserved for a final?

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