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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: Touching the Divine, Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What crewman at the University of Washington had spent five brutal months fishing for salmon on the Bering Sea in Alaska to raise money to attend college?
(a) Ed Stanley.
(b) George Hunt.
(c) Gordy Adam.
(d) Harvey Love.

2. On what date did thirty thousand German troops roll into the demilitarized Rhineland, defying the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact?
(a) January 3, 1936.
(b) March 7, 1936.
(c) April 20, 1936.
(d) September 3, 1936.

3. Where did Al Ulbrickson agree to meet Cal, Pennsylvania, Syracuse, Wisconsin, and UCLA for a one-off-two-thousand-meter varsity matchup after Poughkeepsie in 1935?
(a) Cleveland, Ohio.
(b) Long Beach, California.
(c) Princeton, New Jersey.
(d) Green Bay, Wisconsin.

4. What two lanes of the racecourse at Grunau were exposed to prevailing winds and could be at times unrowable?
(a) Lanes 3 and 4.
(b) Lanes 5 and 6.
(c) Lanes 7 and 8.
(d) Lanes 1 and 2.

5. 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) 12 and three-quarters of an inch.
(b) 14 and a quarter inches.
(c) 19 and a half inches.
(d) 10 and a half inches.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the name of the train that the Washington crews took to Poughkeepsie in 1934?

3. How many crews competed for the right to go to Berlin's 1936 Olympics in Princeton?

4. When was Franklin D. Roosevelt inaugurated as President of the United States?

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

(see the answer key)

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