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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 Frank Cunningham weigh when he returned to Harvard after the war?

2. What elective course did Biglow take at Dartmouth?

3. By how many seconds did Lewis and Enquist win the gold?

4. Where was Ricardo Ibarra from?

5. When Lewis and Enquist came to Princeton for the double race, by how many lengths did they win their heat?

Short Essay Questions

1. What personal disappointment was Harry Parker fighting during team camp?

2. Why did Parker believe that he should have canceled participation in the Lucerne races?

3. Why did Parker and Altekruse argue on the day of the Princeton trials?

4. Why was Biglow glad that he chose Dartmouth Medical School?

5. Why was Enquist upset with Lewis after they won the challenge boat at Princeton?

6. How did Parker sometimes protect certain oarsmen whose skills he was confident of from the savagery of the seat?

7. Why didn't Biglow watch videotapes of the final of the single scull?

8. Why did Lewis nickname Altekruse's and Bouscaren's boat?

9. Why was it so difficult for Wood that he was chosen to be a spare by the Olympic rowing committee?

10. Why didn't Lewis and Enquist room together at the Olympics?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss why the Americans boycotted the 1980 summer Olympics and how the rowers reacted to this boycott. Wood was quoted as saying that he had to force himself to keep rowing. Discuss why and how Wood would force himself to continue rowing.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Lewis created his own training devices and used some inventive methods to improve his rowing. Discuss why he created his own training devices and what some of these inventive methods and creative training devices were that he used to improve his rowing.

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