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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. When Donald Beer won an Olympic gold medal, what rowing event did he compete in?

2. When did Karppinen first win an Olympic gold medal?

3. Who were two well-known teammates that Wood had crewed with in college?

4. How many liters of oxygen could a world-class rower take in per minute?

5. How old was Christopher Wood during the time of the 1984 Olympic game trials?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did both Biglow and Wood want to be the single sculler in the 1984 Olympic games?

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

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

4. Why was it difficult to televise rowing?

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

6. In what way were the rowing athletes treated differently from other Olympic hopefuls?

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

8. Why did Biglow decide to attend Yale?

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

10. Why didn't Wood and the other rowers row a stroke in the 1980 summer Olympics?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Harry Parker offered Lewis a spot as the eighth man in a quad. Using the arguments that Lewis used, argue whether he should or should not have accepted the position.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss why Bouscaren, Biglow, Lewis, and Wood had different feelings about rowing after the Olympics, and why each man did or did not decide to continue rowing.

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