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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. 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?
(a) 2 million people.
(b) 20 million people.
(c) 4 million people.
(d) 10 million people.

2. Who wrote an exuberant account of the Cal-Washington varsity regatta for the Associated Press in 1934?
(a) Frank G. Gorrie.
(b) Russell Callow.
(c) Harvey Love.
(d) Willis Thompson.

3. Who were the two schools that raced against one another in the first intercollegiate rowing crew race in the U.S.?
(a) Yale and NYU.
(b) Harvard and Yale.
(c) Rutgers and Princeton.
(d) MIT and Harvard.

4. George Pocock grew up in and around the boathouse of what prominent school?
(a) Yale University.
(b) Winchester College.
(c) Eton College.
(d) Harvard University.

5. Who was the head of the rowing program at the University of California at Berkeley in 1934?
(a) Ky Ebright.
(b) Willis Thompson.
(c) Angus Hay Jr.
(d) Roger Morris.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the coxswain of the varsity boat that raced against the freshmen at the University of Washington in Part 2: Resiliency, Chapter 6?

2. In what year did the Wright brothers make the first controlled human flight?

3. What was the name of Joseph Goebbels' wife?

4. How far did Roger Morris walk to the University of Washington each day from his parents' home in Fremont?

5. The first American intercollegiate crew race in America took place in what year?

(see the answer key)

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