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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: Touching the Divine, Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose quotations open almost each chapter of The Boys in the Boat?
(a) Joe Rantz's.
(b) Al Ulbrickson's.
(c) Ky Ebright's.
(d) George Pocock's.

2. In what year did Ed Leader leave the University of Washington's rowing program to coach at Yale?
(a) 1926.
(b) 1923.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1933.

3. What was the name of the custom-built sectional boat that Sir Henry Stanley used to search for Dr. David Livingstone in Central Africa in 1874?
(a) SS Manhattan.
(b) Lady Alice.
(c) The Whitehorse.
(d) The Green Dragon.

4. Of the Grand Coulee Dam, the narrator says it was "so massive that by the time it was finished it would be the largest masonry structure built since" what?
(a) The Great Wall of China.
(b) The Great Pyramid at Giza.
(c) The Sears Tower.
(d) The Empire State Building.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many men worked in the kitchen for the cafeteria of the Grand Coulee Dam site when Joe Rantz worked there?

2. How many inches of rain does the author describe falling at the University of Washington during the course of a month of flooding in Part 1: What Seasons They Have Been Through, Chapter 5?

3. When was the first Intercollegiate Rowing Association Regatta held?

4. What was the name of the University of Washington's football team before they became the Huskies?

5. In what year did Seattle's professional hockey team, the Metropolitans, become the first American team to win the Stanley Cup?

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