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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Resiliency, Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of shop Harry Rantz run in Sequim, Washington in 1925?
(a) A candy shop.
(b) A butcher shop.
(c) An antique clock shop.
(d) An auto repair shop.

2. What was the home water used by the University of California at Berkeley's rowing team in 1934?
(a) The Arcata Bay.
(b) Langer See.
(c) The Oakland Estuary.
(d) Montlake Cut.

3. What was the name of the shell that the freshman crew raced in Poughkeepsie in 1934?
(a) The Seattle Mariner.
(b) The SS Manhattan.
(c) The Husky Clipper.
(d) The City of Seattle.

4. The first American intercollegiate crew race in America took place in what year?
(a) 1852.
(b) 1788.
(c) 1808.
(d) 1900.

5. When did Stanford University first compete in the IRA Regatta?
(a) 1856.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1899.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what body of water was the first intercollegiate crew race held in the United States?

2. On what date did the University of Washington's freshman and varsity rowing teams board the train for Poughkeepsie in 1934?

3. How hold was Joe Rantz when his father and Thula abandoned him in Sequim, Washington?

4. 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?

5. In what year did Ed Leader leave the University of Washington's rowing program to coach at Yale?

(see the answer key)

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