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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what date did the University of Washington crew members depart on the train for Poughkeepsie in 1936?
(a) June 24.
(b) March 1.
(c) June 10.
(d) July 5.

2. Who was the NBC announcer that screamed the details of the crew regatta over KOMO's airwaves in Seattle during the 1936 Olympic Games?
(a) Ed Stanley.
(b) George Hunt.
(c) Vic Krulak.
(d) Bill Slater.

3. 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) Bobby Moch.
(c) Royal Brougham.
(d) Wink Winslow.

4. What deliberately risky tactic did Al Ulbrickson decide to use in the regatta in Poughkeepsie in 1936?
(a) A moderate pace throughout.
(b) A slow finish.
(c) A slow start.
(d) A fast start.

5. Who was the twenty-two-year-old heavyweight boxer from Detroit that rose to prominence against Max Schmeling in 1936?
(a) Wink Winslow.
(b) Angus Hay Jr.
(c) Joe Louis.
(d) Harvey Love.

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

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

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

9. How much did Joe Rantz earn for the dangerous job jack-hammering on the side of cliff faces at the Grand Coulee Dam site in 1935?
(a) 25 cents an hour.
(b) 75 cents an hour.
(c) 50 cents an hour.
(d) 2 dollars an hour.

10. What word used to describe Chuck Day in Part 3: The Parts That Really Matter, Chapter 11 means inclined to quarrel or combative?
(a) Derivative.
(b) Epistolary.
(c) Pugnacious.
(d) Scullery.

11. Who was the senior that Ulbrickson swapped out for George Morry as coxswain on the sophomore boat at Poughkeepsie in 1935?
(a) George Hunt.
(b) Ed Stanley.
(c) Wink Winslow.
(d) Russell Callow.

12. What book did the Reich League of German Officials have hand-transcribed as a birthday gift for Adolf Hitler on April 20, 1947?
(a) Mein Kampf.
(b) Olympia.
(c) Ulysses.
(d) Zweites Buch.

13. Who was the stroke for the British crew at the 1936 Olympics?
(a) George A. Wyman.
(b) George Hunt.
(c) Gordy Adam.
(d) William George Ranald Mundell Laurie.

14. Who was the Kansas City AP bureau chief that first coined the phrase "the dust bowl"?
(a) Byron Noble.
(b) Frank G. Gorrie.
(c) Harvey Love.
(d) Ed Stanley.

15. Who was Joyce Simdars' employer that payed for her to take cooking lessons after she made an unpalatable duck a l'orange?
(a) Mrs. Brougham.
(b) Mrs. Thompson.
(c) Mrs. Tellwright.
(d) Mrs. Moch.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the head of Cornell's rowing program at the Olympic trials in 1936?

2. How much money did the Nazi government secretly funnel to Leni Riefenstahl for the purpose of producing the film "Olympia"?

3. By what name did the dust storm that hit on April 14, 1935 become known?

4. What was the name of the ship that the University of Washington crew took to Europe in 1936?

5. Who was the coxswain for the British crew at the 1936 Olympic Games?

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