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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: Touching the Divine, Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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?
(a) 10 and a half inches.
(b) 12 and three-quarters of an inch.
(c) 14 and a quarter inches.
(d) 19 and a half inches.

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

5. What book did the Reich League of German Officials have hand-transcribed as a birthday gift for Adolf Hitler on April 20, 1947?
(a) Ulysses.
(b) Olympia.
(c) Mein Kampf.
(d) Zweites Buch.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date did thirty thousand German troops roll into the demilitarized Rhineland, defying the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact?

2. How tall was Bobby Moch in 1936?

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

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

5. George Pocock grew up in and around the boathouse of what prominent school?

(see the answer key)

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