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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: Touching the Divine, Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the head of Cornell's rowing program at the Olympic trials in 1936?
(a) Jim Wray.
(b) Ed Stanley.
(c) Charlie McDonald.
(d) Lloyd Saxton.

2. On what network did Royal Brougham announce the live broadcast of the Olympic rowing trials in 1936?
(a) CBS.
(b) ABC.
(c) FOX.
(d) NBC.

3. What lake is used by Princeton University's rowing team?
(a) Lake Winnepesaukee.
(b) Montlake Cut.
(c) Langer See.
(d) Lake Carnegie.

4. Who was the senior that Ulbrickson swapped out for George Morry as coxswain on the sophomore boat at Poughkeepsie in 1935?
(a) George Hunt.
(b) Russell Callow.
(c) Ed Stanley.
(d) Wink Winslow.

5. Who was the Kansas City AP bureau chief that first coined the phrase "the dust bowl"?
(a) Harvey Love.
(b) Byron Noble.
(c) Ed Stanley.
(d) Frank G. Gorrie.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Seattle's professional hockey team, the Metropolitans, become the first American team to win the Stanley Cup?

2. What sports writer for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer had been "loudly backing the cause of the sophomores for months" before the regatta in Poughkeepsie in 1935, according to the author in Part 3: The Parts That Really Matter, Chapter 10?

3. On what date does the author say "it began to rain in Seattle as it had never rained before and has never rained since" in Part 1: What Seasons They Have Been Through, Chapter 5?

4. What was the name of Roger Morris's family's moving business?

5. How many inches of rain does the author describe falling at the University of Washington during the course of a month of flooding in Part 1: What Seasons They Have Been Through, Chapter 5?

(see the answer key)

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