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

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 champion sculler from the 1904 Olympics that attended the 1936 Olympic trials for rowing?
(a) Charlie McDonald.
(b) Lloyd Saxton.
(c) Jim Wray.
(d) Constance Titus.

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

5. How far did Roger Morris walk to the University of Washington each day from his parents' home in Fremont?
(a) 1.5 miles.
(b) 5.5 miles.
(c) 16 miles.
(d) 2.5 miles.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was the head of Cornell's rowing program at the Olympic trials in 1936?

3. What was the name of the racing vessel that the University of Washington crew took to Poughkeepsie in 1936?

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

5. What was one of the derogatory nicknames that the richer students of the University of Washington called Joe Rantz?

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