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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. By what name did the dust storm that hit on April 14, 1935 become known?
(a) Black Sunday.
(b) Black Friday.
(c) Black Monday.
(d) Black Thursday.

3. Where did Bobby Moch grow up?
(a) Montesano, Washington.
(b) Spokane, Washington.
(c) Berkeley, California.
(d) Portland, Oregon.

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

5. Who won the silver medal in men's eights at the 1936 Olympics?
(a) Great Britain.
(b) Germany.
(c) Italy.
(d) France.

6. Who was the coxswain for the German crew at the 1936 Olympics?
(a) Frank G. Gorrie.
(b) Angus Hay Jr.
(c) Vic Krulak.
(d) Wilhelm Mahlow.

7. On what date did thirty thousand German troops roll into the demilitarized Rhineland, defying the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact?
(a) April 20, 1936.
(b) January 3, 1936.
(c) September 3, 1936.
(d) March 7, 1936.

8. In what village were the American rowers lodged at a police training camp during the 1936 Olympics?
(a) Kassel.
(b) Fischerhude.
(c) Reihendorf.
(d) Kopenick.

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

10. What was the name of the Irish port where the American Olympic athletes' ship stopped on July 21, 1936?
(a) Kinsale.
(b) Trivoli.
(c) Rosslare.
(d) Cobh.

11. Who was the coxswain for the British crew at the 1936 Olympic Games?
(a) John Noel Duckworth.
(b) Ed Stanley.
(c) Gordy Adam.
(d) Avery Brundage.

12. How old was Fritz Kreisler when he was admitted to the Vienna Conservatory?
(a) 13.
(b) 17.
(c) 9.
(d) 7.

13. Who was the champion sculler from the 1904 Olympics that attended the 1936 Olympic trials for rowing?
(a) Lloyd Saxton.
(b) Constance Titus.
(c) Jim Wray.
(d) Charlie McDonald.

14. How many eight-oared crews competed in the 1936 Olympic Games?
(a) 6.
(b) 16.
(c) 14.
(d) 10.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who won the bronze medal in men's eights at the 1936 Olympics?

2. Of the Grand Coulee Dam, the narrator says it was "so massive that by the time it was finished it would be the largest masonry structure built since" what?

3. Who was the stroke for the British crew at the 1936 Olympics?

4. How old did Adolf Hitler turn on April 20, 1936?

5. What lake is used by Princeton University's rowing team?

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