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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. What were Anthony Bouscaren's religious beliefs?

2. How old was Biglow when he won a bronze in a world regatta?

3. How much would Wood have allowed Biglow to pay to rent the new scull that he bought?

4. How much money could Lewis make in three or four months framing houses?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Why was it difficult to televise rowing?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

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

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.

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