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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Dan Goldberg from?

2. How much weight could Lewis lift in the dead lift?

3. What sport did Harry Parker encourage rowers to take up because it built up athletic endurance?

4. Who was the Harvard sweep oarsman who had a tough time dealing with the mental adjustment to sculling?

5. How long did most young men compete in rowing?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Mitch accompany Lewis to Princeton?

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

3. Why would it have been difficult for the Dallas Cowboys to draft Carl Lewis as a possible wide receiver?

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

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

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

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

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

9. Why did a sculler have to find motivation within himself?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the reasons why Wood and Biglow both wanted to be the single sculler in the Olympic games.

Essay Topic 2

Parker was troubled by the coaching he had given Lewis. Discuss how Parker coached Lewis and why he was troubled by the coaching he gave Lewis.

Essay Topic 3

Lewis created his own training devices and used some inventive methods to improve his rowing. Discuss why he created his own training devices and what some of these inventive methods and creative training devices were that he used to improve his rowing.

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