The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics Quiz | Eight Week Quiz G

Daniel James Brown
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 144 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics Quiz | Eight Week Quiz G

Daniel James Brown
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 144 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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. Who was the first person to cross the United States by motor vehicle, traveling by motorcycle from San Francisco to New York?
(a) Roger Morris.
(b) Tom Bolles.
(c) Angus Hay Jr.
(d) George A. Wyman.

2. Who was the bootlegger that Joe and Harry stole liquor from to sell on the black market during the Great Depression in Sequim?
(a) Angus Hay Jr.
(b) George A. Wyman.
(c) Tom Bolles.
(d) Byron Noble.

3. In what year did Seattle's professional hockey team, the Metropolitans, become the first American team to win the Stanley Cup?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1936.
(d) 1917.

4. Who was the stroke man for Penn State at the 1936 Olympic trials?
(a) Jim Wray.
(b) Gordy Adam.
(c) Charlie McDonald.
(d) Lloyd Saxton.

5. What University of Washington crew member's father had been the manager of Bon Marche department store and was famous for hiring spies to infiltrate the unions?
(a) Frank G. Gorrie's father.
(b) Broussais Beck Jr.'s father.
(c) Angus Hay Jr.'s father.
(d) Byron Noble's father.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Al Ulbrickson addressed the sophomore crew members at the University of Washington in Part 2: Resiliency, Chapter 8, he told them they were not to eat what?

2. Where did Thula Rantz go to audition for Fritz Kreisler in 1935?

3. Where did Harry go to fetch a doctor when Thula went into labor in November of 1924?

4. What sports writer for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer had been "loudly backing the cause of the sophomores for months" before the regatta in Poughkeepsie in 1935, according to the author in Part 3: The Parts That Really Matter, Chapter 10?

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

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