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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 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Angus Hay Jr.
(b) Byron Noble.
(c) George A. Wyman.
(d) Tom Bolles.

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

4. In what year did the Wright brothers make the first controlled human flight?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1903.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1889.

5. What word from Part 1: What Seasons They Have Been Through, Chapter 3 refers to an even balance or distribution of weight?
(a) Elocution.
(b) Posterior.
(c) Equipoise.
(d) Ellipses.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the fourth year of the Great Depression, how many Americans had no job or prospect of finding one, according to the author in Part 1: What Seasons They Have Been Through, Chapter 1?

2. What was the name of the swing band that Roger Morris played with for extra money on the weekends while attending school at the University of Washington?

3. On what date does the author say "it began to rain in Seattle as it had never rained before and has never rained since" in Part 1: What Seasons They Have Been Through, Chapter 5?

4. Who accompanied Joe Rantz as he made his way to the University of Washington crew tryouts in Part 1: What Seasons They Have Been Through, Chapter 1?

5. When was Franklin D. Roosevelt inaugurated as President of the United States?

(see the answer key)

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