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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the area called where Joe Rantz rented a cheap room while working at the Grand Coulee Dam site?
(a) Hooverville.
(b) Dinghy Pond.
(c) Jackson Square.
(d) Shack Town.

2. What was Chuck Day's father's profession?
(a) He was a shipbuilder.
(b) He was a professor.
(c) He was a butcher.
(d) He was a dentist.

3. On what river was the Grand Coulee dam site where Joe Rantz worked?
(a) The Columbia River.
(b) The Sacramento River.
(c) The Colorado River.
(d) The Klamath River.

4. Who was the stroke on the University of Washington's crew at the 1936 Olympics?
(a) George Hunt.
(b) Bobby Moch.
(c) Donald Hume.
(d) Charles Day.

5. What was the name of Bobby Moch's father?
(a) George Moch.
(b) Harry Moch.
(c) Avery Moch.
(d) Gaston Moch.

6. What lake is used by Princeton University's rowing team?
(a) Lake Carnegie.
(b) Langer See.
(c) Lake Winnepesaukee.
(d) Montlake Cut.

7. Who was the head of Cornell's rowing program at the Olympic trials in 1936?
(a) Jim Wray.
(b) Charlie McDonald.
(c) Lloyd Saxton.
(d) Ed Stanley.

8. On what network did Royal Brougham announce the live broadcast of the Olympic rowing trials in 1936?
(a) ABC.
(b) CBS.
(c) NBC.
(d) FOX.

9. Who stands on the podium at the medal ceremony at the 1936 Olympics in the photograph that concludes Part 4: Touching the Divine, Chapter 18?
(a) George Hunt.
(b) Royal Brougham.
(c) Bobby Moch.
(d) Wink Winslow.

10. How tall was the tower that was built on the site where the Maifeld had been at the Reichssportfeld?
(a) 200 feet tall.
(b) 150 feet tall.
(c) 248 feet tall.
(d) 375 feet tall.

11. Who was the head of the Yale rowing crew at the Olympic trials in 1936?
(a) Ed Stanley.
(b) Joe Louis.
(c) Gordy Adam.
(d) Ed Leader.

12. Who was in charge of the cookhouse for the Washington crew when they arrived for the race at Poughkeepsie in 1936?
(a) Wink Winslow.
(b) Joyce Simnars.
(c) Frank G. Gorrie.
(d) Evanda May Calimar.

13. What crews were the University of Washington boys assigned to race for their preliminary regatta at the 1936 Olympics?
(a) France, Japan, Czechoslovakia, and Great Britain.
(b) China, Japan, and Ireland.
(c) Germany, Italy, and Argentina.
(d) Russia, Italy, France, and Great Britain.

14. 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) George Hunt.
(b) Harvey Love.
(c) Gordy Adam.
(d) Ed Stanley.

15. What rowing crew at the 1936 Olympics was comprised entirely of police officers?
(a) The French.
(b) The British.
(c) The Australians.
(d) The Germans.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the athletic director for Stanford University that attended the 1936 Olympics?

2. What was the time of the University of California at Berkeley's crew in their heat for the 1936 Olympic trials?

3. Who was the coxswain for the German crew at the 1936 Olympics?

4. On what date was the medal race for the eight-oared crews in the 1936 Olympic Games?

5. At what posh hotel did the athletic director from Stanford invite the Washington crew boys to dine with him?

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