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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. 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?
(a) Avery Brundage.
(b) Ed Stanley.
(c) Charlie McDonald.
(d) Royal Brougham.

2. Who was the head of the Yale rowing crew at the Olympic trials in 1936?
(a) Ed Stanley.
(b) Gordy Adam.
(c) Joe Louis.
(d) Ed Leader.

3. Who was the president of both the AAU and the American Olympic Committee in 1935?
(a) Avery Brundage.
(b) Byron Noble.
(c) Charlie McDonald.
(d) Ed Stanley.

4. In what year did Seattle's professional hockey team, the Metropolitans, become the first American team to win the Stanley Cup?
(a) 1917.
(b) 1936.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1900.

5. What word from Part 3: The Parts That Really Matter, Chapter 10 refers to a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd?
(a) Paradox.
(b) Allusion.
(c) Vagary.
(d) Ambiguity.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the coxswain for Navy at the Olympic trials in 1936?

2. By what name did the dust storm that hit on April 14, 1935 become known?

3. What was the time of the University of California at Berkeley's crew in their heat for the 1936 Olympic trials?

4. How far did Roger Morris walk to the University of Washington each day from his parents' home in Fremont?

5. How many of the original 175 boys were still in competition for a seat in the first two freshman boats at the University of Washington on October 30, 1933?

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