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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. How much money was brought into town when the Olympic trials were held in Chapter 1?
2. What year did the U.S. boycott the summer Olympic games?
3. When did the Biglows move West?
4. What had the American scullers won for the past three years, before the 1984 Olympic trials?
5. Who was President the year that the U.S. boycotted the summer Olympic games?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did Fritz Hagerman, an Ohio University professor who specialized in testing athletes, believe was a reason why those who dominated in sculling were physiological freaks?
2. Why, when Wood was in his mid-twenties, would he ritually get ready to quit rowing and then stay on?
3. What was Wood like at prep school and at Harvard?
4. How did Lewis support himself?
5. Why didn't Bouscaren play tennis at Yale?
6. What questions did Biglow ask Parker when he called him before he returned to Cambridge?
7. Why were the American teams at a disadvantage competing against the Europeans in the Olympic games?
8. Why was Christopher Wood known for being particularly experienced in scrounging lodging and food?
9. Why did both Biglow and Wood want to be the single sculler in the 1984 Olympic games?
10. What caused Madison Avenue to become more interested in the Olympics?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Using examples from the book, discuss Biglow's desire to achieve and how that affected the way that he lived his life.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss why the Soviets and East Germans pulled out of the 1984 Olympics and how that affected rowing for the Americans.
Essay Topic 3
The eastern and western rowing coaches had different coaching styles. Discuss the coaching styles of the eastern and western coaches, and why Biglow felt caught between the two styles of coaching.
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