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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 could Lewis make in three or four months framing houses?

2. What branch of service was Bouscaren's father in during World War II?

3. Who was President the year that the U.S. boycotted the summer Olympic games?

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

5. What was Biglow's grade point average when he graduated from Yale?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Pertti Karppinen.

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

3. Why did Biglow decide to attend Yale?

4. What was Jim Dietz's history rowing competitively?

5. How would Wood's coach Harry Parker accept it if Wood said that he no longer wanted to be a sculler?

6. Why didn't Biglow's grandmother want him to row in the Olympic trials?

7. How did Lewis support himself?

8. What was Biglow's father's idea of success?

9. What was an economic reason why Christopher Wood chose to travel with Charley Altekruse?

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

Other oarsmen called Paul Enquist Paul "Zenquist". Discuss why Enquist was nicknamed Paul "Zenquist".

Essay Topic 2

When the names were drawn for the semifinals for the Olympic trials, there were mixed reactions to the draw. Discuss the draw for the semifinals and the reactions to the draw.

Essay Topic 3

After the training camp ended and the final selections for the Olympic games were made, Parker felt that he had made some mistakes. Discuss the mistakes that Parker believed he made during the training camp.

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