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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who were the four crewman that had incomplete coursework and faced being declared ineligible to row at the University of Washington in May of 1936?
(a) Chuck, Stub, Don, and Shorty.
(b) Charlie, Ed, George, and Stubs.
(c) Joe, Gordy, Wink, and Ed.
(d) Shorty, Harry, Joe, and Eric.

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

3. 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?
(a) The Great Wall of China.
(b) The Empire State Building.
(c) The Great Pyramid at Giza.
(d) The Sears Tower.

4. Who was the coxswain for Navy at the Olympic trials in 1936?
(a) Gordy Adam.
(b) Joe Louis.
(c) Wink Winslow.
(d) Vic Krulak.

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

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

7. What is the central boulevard in Berlin described by the author in Part 4: Touching the Divine, Chapter 16?
(a) Bornholmer Strasse.
(b) Kopenhagener Strasse.
(c) Schönhauser Allee.
(d) Unter den Linden.

8. What was Bobby Moch's weight in 1936?
(a) 145 lbs.
(b) 176 lbs.
(c) 119 lbs.
(d) 127 lbs.

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) 50 cents an hour.
(b) 75 cents an hour.
(c) 2 dollars an hour.
(d) 25 cents an hour.

10. What business had Johnny White's father run until the financial crash of 1929?
(a) A Las Vegas casino.
(b) A scrap steel export business.
(c) A bakery.
(d) A logging company.

11. What is the name of the lakeside community in Berlin where the 1936 Olympic rowing, canoeing, and kayaking events took place?
(a) Dahlem.
(b) Grunau.
(c) Nikolskoë.
(d) Mitte.

12. Where was the long-distance runner Louis Zamperini from?
(a) Brooklyn, New York.
(b) Torrance, California.
(c) Cleveland, Ohio.
(d) Spokane, Washington.

13. At what posh hotel did the athletic director from Stanford invite the Washington crew boys to dine with him?
(a) Lindner Hotel.
(b) Four Seasons Berlin.
(c) Hotel Adlon.
(d) Nhow Berlin.

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

15. 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) Zweites Buch.
(d) Ulysses.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sports writer for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer had been "loudly backing the cause of the sophomores for months" before the regatta in Poughkeepsie in 1935, according to the author in Part 3: The Parts That Really Matter, Chapter 10?

2. How old was Fritz Kreisler when he was admitted to the Vienna Conservatory?

3. In what village were the American rowers lodged at a police training camp during the 1936 Olympics?

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

5. Who was the Kansas City AP bureau chief that first coined the phrase "the dust bowl"?

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