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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 long was the annual rowing race between Yale and Harvard?

3. How many hours did Wood exercise in a year?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why was Christopher Wood known for being particularly experienced in scrounging lodging and food?

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

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

6. Why didn't Bouscaren play tennis at Yale?

7. 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?

8. Why did Biglow decide to attend Yale?

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

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

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 2

Compare and contrast the men who were competing to represent America in the single scull at the 1984 Olympics.

Essay Topic 3

Because of his background, Biglow seemed different from his college classmates. Discuss how Biglow was different from his teammates and classmates.

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