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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 did Biglow weigh?

2. How long was the annual rowing race between Yale and Harvard?

3. How much older was Wood than most of his competitors?

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

5. Who was the person that Lewis worked with most of the time when he was rowing?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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?

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

8. What were some of the jobs that Wood had held since he graduated from college?

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

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

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.

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast how Wood and Bouscaren dealt with their disappointment when they did not make the Olympic rowing team.

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