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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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) Harry Rantz.
(b) Angus Hay Jr.
(c) Harvey Love.
(d) Willis Thompson.

5. What term refers to the person that verbally controls a boat's steering, speed, timing, and fluidity in competitive rowing?
(a) Scull.
(b) Stroke.
(c) Sweep.
(d) Coxswain.

6. What was the name of Roger Morris's family's moving business?
(a) The Jackson Movers.
(b) The Franklin Transfer Company.
(c) The Williamstown Moving Company.
(d) The Morris Renovation Company.

7. 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) Byron Noble's father.
(b) Broussais Beck Jr.'s father.
(c) Frank G. Gorrie's father.
(d) Angus Hay Jr.'s father.

8. What was the name of the shell that the freshman crew raced in Poughkeepsie in 1934?
(a) The Seattle Mariner.
(b) The Husky Clipper.
(c) The City of Seattle.
(d) The SS Manhattan.

9. 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) Russell Callow.
(b) Harvey Love.
(c) Willis Thompson.
(d) George Hunt.

10. What is the Olympic standard distance for all rowing events?
(a) 1,000 meters.
(b) 2,500 meters.
(c) 2,000 meters.
(d) 500 meters.

11. George Pocock grew up in and around the boathouse of what prominent school?
(a) Harvard University.
(b) Eton College.
(c) Yale University.
(d) Winchester College.

12. When was George Pocock born?
(a) March 31, 1914.
(b) December 14, 1895.
(c) October 9, 1900.
(d) March 23, 1891.

13. In what year did the University of California at Berkeley win the Olympic gold for rowing in Amsterdam?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1928.
(c) 1888.
(d) 1936.

14. What was the nickname that Jim McMillin's crewmates called him?
(a) Stub.
(b) Hungry-Jack.
(c) Jimmy Rogers.
(d) Shorty.

15. What was the name of the custom-built sectional boat that Sir Henry Stanley used to search for Dr. David Livingstone in Central Africa in 1874?
(a) The Green Dragon.
(b) The Whitehorse.
(c) Lady Alice.
(d) SS Manhattan.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the first Intercollegiate Rowing Association Regatta held?

2. From where did Joe Rantz's parents move to Spokane after they married?

3. What did the game warden do when he spied Joe Rantz poaching salmon in the beginning of Part 2: Resiliency, Chapter 8?

4. 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?

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

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