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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: What Seasons They Have Been Through, Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term refers to the person that verbally controls a boat's steering, speed, timing, and fluidity in competitive rowing?
(a) Coxswain.
(b) Sweep.
(c) Stroke.
(d) Scull.

2. What was Joe Rantz's mother's maiden name?
(a) Sarah Smith.
(b) Thula Maxwell.
(c) Nellie Maxwell.
(d) Marie Anderson.

3. What was the name of Joe's aunt that he was sent to live with after his mother died?
(a) Alma.
(b) Marie.
(c) Ellen.
(d) Sarah.

4. When was Franklin D. Roosevelt inaugurated as President of the United States?
(a) October 9, 1933.
(b) March 4, 1933.
(c) ecember 14, 1930.
(d) July 1, 1932.

5. What friend of Joe Rantz's was a central figure in one of Daniel James Brown's earlier books, according to the author in the Prologue?
(a) Byron Noble.
(b) Tom Bolles.
(c) Angus Hay Jr.
(d) George A. Wyman.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date does the author begin his narrative in Part 1: What Seasons They Have Been Through, Chapter 1?

2. George Pocock grew up in and around the boathouse of what prominent school?

3. What was the name of Joe Rantz's father?

4. Where were the University of Washington rowing crew tryouts held in Part 1: What Seasons They Have Been Through, Chapter 1?

5. On what date was Joe Rantz born?

(see the answer key)

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