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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 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the rowing program at the University of California at Berkeley established?
(a) 1856.
(b) 1899.
(c) 1868.
(d) 1901.

2. What was novel about the manner in which Joe Rantz's parents married?
(a) They were married on a mountaintop.
(b) They were married over the telephone.
(c) They were married in an airplane.
(d) They were married over the internet.

3. On what body of water was the first intercollegiate crew race held in the United States?
(a) Langer See.
(b) Lake Siskiyou.
(c) Lake Winnepesaukee.
(d) Montlake Cut.

4. What did the game warden do when he spied Joe Rantz poaching salmon in the beginning of Part 2: Resiliency, Chapter 8?
(a) He called Joe's father.
(b) He hauled Joe to the county jail.
(c) He hit him over the head with a piece of driftwood.
(d) He shot him in the ankle with a pistol.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was Joe Rantz's music teacher in Sequim?

3. Who replaced Ed Leader as the head coach of the University of Washington rowing program?

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

5. Whose quotations open almost each chapter of The Boys in the Boat?

(see the answer key)

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