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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. How old was Jim Ten Eyck, the coach from Syracuse, in 1935 when Washington went to race in Poughkeepsie?
(a) 39.
(b) 83.
(c) 76.
(d) 55.

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

3. Who was the coxswain for Navy at the Olympic trials in 1936?
(a) Vic Krulak.
(b) Joe Louis.
(c) Wink Winslow.
(d) Gordy Adam.

4. Who was the stroke man for Penn State at the 1936 Olympic trials?
(a) Lloyd Saxton.
(b) Gordy Adam.
(c) Jim Wray.
(d) Charlie McDonald.

5. How many crews competed for the right to go to Berlin's 1936 Olympics in Princeton?
(a) 8.
(b) 6.
(c) 12.
(d) 10.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from Part 3: The Parts That Really Matter, Chapter 10 refers to a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd?

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. Who was the senior that Ulbrickson swapped out for George Morry as coxswain on the sophomore boat at Poughkeepsie in 1935?

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

5. What was the name of the University of Washington student that accidentally set himself on fire during a bonfire and was killed in 1933?

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