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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3: The Parts That Really Matter, Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the Aurora Bridge opened?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1936.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1929.

2. How many inches of rain does the author describe falling at the University of Washington during the course of a month of flooding in Part 1: What Seasons They Have Been Through, Chapter 5?
(a) 12 and three-quarters of an inch.
(b) 14 and a quarter inches.
(c) 19 and a half inches.
(d) 10 and a half inches.

3. What business had Johnny White's father run until the financial crash of 1929?
(a) A bakery.
(b) A scrap steel export business.
(c) A Las Vegas casino.
(d) A logging company.

4. When was the first Intercollegiate Rowing Association Regatta held?
(a) June 24, 1895.
(b) September 29, 1829.
(c) March 31, 1914.
(d) March 11, 1911.

5. What University of Washington crew member's father had been the manager of Bon Marche department store and was famous for hiring spies to infiltrate the unions?
(a) Angus Hay Jr.'s father.
(b) Frank G. Gorrie's father.
(c) Byron Noble's father.
(d) Broussais Beck Jr.'s father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the area called where Joe Rantz rented a cheap room while working at the Grand Coulee Dam site?

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

3. Of the Grand Coulee Dam, the narrator says it was "so massive that by the time it was finished it would be the largest masonry structure built since" what?

4. In what year did Hiram Conibear die?

5. How many men worked in the kitchen for the cafeteria of the Grand Coulee Dam site when Joe Rantz worked there?

(see the answer key)

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