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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 did Lewis do a few months after the Olympics?
(a) Began medical school.
(b) Lectured.
(c) Went back home for a few months to relax.
(d) Began working full time at Wells Fargo.

2. By how much did Lewis and Enquist win the repechage at the Olympics?
(a) 1 second.
(b) 5 seconds.
(c) 3 seconds.
(d) 2 seconds.

3. Who was stroking the quad at the finals?
(a) Charley Bracken.
(b) Brad Lewis.
(c) Tiff Wood.
(d) Paul Enquist.

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

5. When did Biglow begin stroking the Yale boat?
(a) His senior year.
(b) His junior year.
(c) His freshman year.
(d) His sophomore year.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many of the years before the Olympic trials had Wood spent rowing by himself?

2. Where is Dartmouth College located?

3. Who did Biglow think he might write to find out about a weight-lifting program?

4. How tall was Frank Cunningham when he returned to Harvard after the war?

5. How did Lewis discover he could achieve instant fame on the tour of the United States with the other Olympic medalists?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Tony Johnson help Lewis and Enquist at Ithaca?

2. How did Biglow and Most get an opportunity to row in a regatta in the East?

3. Why was Enquist upset with Lewis after they won the challenge boat at Princeton?

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

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

6. What did Wood arrange to liven things up a little and perhaps give him a sense of belonging at the Olympics?

7. Why did Parker and Altekruse argue on the day of the Princeton trials?

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

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

10. What did Wood do after the Olympics?

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