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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where did Harry go to fetch a doctor when Thula went into labor in November of 1924?
(a) Bonners Ferry, Idaho.
(b) San Francisco, California.
(c) Mammoth, California.
(d) Sequim, Washington.

3. How hold was Joe Rantz when his father and Thula abandoned him in Sequim, Washington?
(a) 12.
(b) 10.
(c) 15.
(d) 17.

4. Who was the coxswain of the varsity boat that raced against the freshmen at the University of Washington in Part 2: Resiliency, Chapter 6?
(a) Harvey Love.
(b) Willis Thompson.
(c) Harry Rantz.
(d) Angus Hay Jr.

5. What term refers to a boat with a narrow, flat bottom, high bow, and flaring sides?
(a) Clipper.
(b) Dinghy.
(c) Kayak.
(d) Dory.

6. 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.

7. What was the home water used by the University of California at Berkeley's rowing team in 1934?
(a) Langer See.
(b) Montlake Cut.
(c) The Arcata Bay.
(d) The Oakland Estuary.

8. In what year did the Wright brothers make the first controlled human flight?
(a) 1903.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1889.

9. 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) 10 and a half inches.
(d) 19 and a half inches.

10. The first American intercollegiate crew race in America took place in what year?
(a) 1852.
(b) 1808.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1788.

11. In what year did Joe Rantz's parents marry?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1882.
(c) 1875.
(d) 1899.

12. On what date did Al Ulbrickson announce his intention to take crews from the University of Washington to the 1936 Olympic Games?
(a) June 24, 1934.
(b) December 14, 1933.
(c) October 9, 1935.
(d) January 14, 1935.

13. Who hired Joe Rantz to help him install a new roof on his farmhouse in the summer of 1934?
(a) Russell Callow.
(b) Frank G. Gorrie.
(c) Charlie McDonald.
(d) Willis Thompson.

14. 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.

15. What was the name of the train that the Washington crews took to Poughkeepsie in 1934?
(a) The Red Baron.
(b) The Empire Builder.
(c) The White Rocket.
(d) The Great Pacific.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the family that Joe's father took Joe to live with near the Hama Hama Logging Company in 1924?

2. Where was Joyce Simdar sent to live with an aunt after her family's home burned down?

3. Who was the first person to cross the United States by motor vehicle, traveling by motorcycle from San Francisco to New York?

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

5. What was one of the derogatory nicknames that the richer students of the University of Washington called Joe Rantz?

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