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

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

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

4. 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?
(a) 100.
(b) 65.
(c) 80.
(d) 108.

5. What was one of the derogatory nicknames that the richer students of the University of Washington called Joe Rantz?
(a) Chief Joe.
(b) Hobo Joe.
(c) Jumpin' Joe.
(d) Smoking Joe.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was the Kansas City AP bureau chief that first coined the phrase "the dust bowl"?

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

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?

(see the answer key)

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