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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Joe Rantz's music teacher in Sequim?
(a) Miss Stanley.
(b) Miss Flatebo.
(c) Miss Paul.
(d) Miss Willis.

2. Who was the first person to cross the United States by motor vehicle, traveling by motorcycle from San Francisco to New York?
(a) Tom Bolles.
(b) George A. Wyman.
(c) Angus Hay Jr.
(d) Roger Morris.

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

4. Who was the head of the rowing program at the University of California at Berkeley in 1934?
(a) Willis Thompson.
(b) Roger Morris.
(c) Angus Hay Jr.
(d) Ky Ebright.

5. What was the name of Thula's mother?
(a) Sarah McWilliams.
(b) Mary LaFollette.
(c) Ellen Jackson.
(d) Emily Thompson.

6. In what year did Hiram Conibear die?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1917.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1936.

7. What did the game warden do when he spied Joe Rantz poaching salmon in the beginning of Part 2: Resiliency, Chapter 8?
(a) He hit him over the head with a piece of driftwood.
(b) He shot him in the ankle with a pistol.
(c) He hauled Joe to the county jail.
(d) He called Joe's father.

8. What was the name of the seventeen-year-old boy who sat in the number two seat of the freshman crew in the beginning of Part 2: Resiliency, Chapter 8?
(a) Harvey Love.
(b) Willis Thompson.
(c) Russell Callow.
(d) George Hunt.

9. In what country was George Pocock born?
(a) Great Britain.
(b) The Republic of Ireland.
(c) The United States.
(d) Belgium.

10. When was the rowing program at the University of California at Berkeley established?
(a) 1868.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1856.
(d) 1899.

11. Who was the freshman rowing coach at the University of Washington in 1933?
(a) Byron Noble.
(b) George A. Wyman.
(c) Tom Bolles.
(d) Al Ulbrickson.

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

13. Where were the University of Washington rowing crew tryouts held in Part 1: What Seasons They Have Been Through, Chapter 1?
(a) Arcata Bay.
(b) Montlake Cut.
(c) Jackson Bay.
(d) Langer See.

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

15. Where was Joyce Simdar sent to live with an aunt after her family's home burned down?
(a) Newark, New Jersey.
(b) Smithville, Kansas.
(c) New York, New York.
(d) Great Falls, Montana.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What kind of shop Harry Rantz run in Sequim, Washington in 1925?

3. What was the nickname that Jim McMillin's crewmates called him?

4. What was the name of the business where Joe visited his father at work in Part 3: The Parts That Really Matter, Chapter 9?

5. Who were the two schools that raced against one another in the first intercollegiate rowing crew race in the U.S.?

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