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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 higher was Biglow's erg score than his teammates' scores?

2. What did Wood do after losing the final?

3. When did Bouscaren graduate from Yale?

4. What reason did Wood's father believe kept Wood rowing?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What adjustments did Altekruse have to make when he went from being an oarsman to a sculler?

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

4. Why did a photo of John Biglow published in the "Yale Daily News" make Steve Kiesling a little uneasy?

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

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. What was Jim Dietz's history rowing competitively?

9. Why was it difficult to televise rowing?

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

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

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

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the reasons why Wood and Biglow both wanted to be the single sculler in the Olympic games.

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