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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) 83.
(b) 76.
(c) 55.
(d) 39.

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

3. What was the name of Roger Morris's family's moving business?
(a) The Jackson Movers.
(b) The Williamstown Moving Company.
(c) The Morris Renovation Company.
(d) The Franklin Transfer Company.

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

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?
(a) Willis Thompson.
(b) Angus Hay Jr.
(c) Byron Noble.
(d) Roger Morris.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the president of both the AAU and the American Olympic Committee in 1935?

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

3. 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?

4. On what network did Royal Brougham announce the live broadcast of the Olympic rowing trials in 1936?

5. Who was the champion sculler from the 1904 Olympics that attended the 1936 Olympic trials for rowing?

(see the answer key)

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