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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the stroke man for Penn State at the 1936 Olympic trials?
(a) Jim Wray.
(b) Charlie McDonald.
(c) Lloyd Saxton.
(d) Gordy Adam.

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

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

4. How many men worked in the kitchen for the cafeteria of the Grand Coulee Dam site when Joe Rantz worked there?
(a) 20.
(b) 30.
(c) 10.
(d) 5.

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

6. Who was the only University of Washington crew member that did not put on weight while on the ship to Berlin before the Olympic Games?
(a) Don Hume.
(b) Vic Krulak.
(c) Royal Brougham.
(d) Joe Rantz.

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

8. Where was Fritz Kreisler born?
(a) Switzerland.
(b) France.
(c) Austria.
(d) Germany.

9. Who were in the first and second lanes at the eight-rowed final regatta of the 1936 Olympics?
(a) France and Italy.
(b) France and Great Britain.
(c) Czechoslovakia and Argentina.
(d) Germany and Italy.

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

11. What is the name of the lake where the Olympic rowing, canoeing, and kayaking events were held in the 1936 Olympics?
(a) Langer See.
(b) Baalensee.
(c) Montlake Cut.
(d) Lake Winnepesaukee.

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

13. What was the name of Al Ulbrickson's wife?
(a) Sarah Ulbrickson.
(b) Maria Ulbrickson.
(c) Idiria Ulbrickson.
(d) Hazel Ulbrickson.

14. How much money did the Nazi government secretly funnel to Leni Riefenstahl for the purpose of producing the film "Olympia"?
(a) 4 million reichsmarks.
(b) 1.5 million reichsmarks.
(c) 2.8 million reichsmarks.
(d) 3.75 million reichsmarks.

15. What was the name of the ship that the University of Washington crew took to Europe in 1936?
(a) The SS Boston.
(b) The SS Manhattan.
(c) The SS Olympia.
(d) The SS Maryland.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Bobby Moch's father?

2. 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?

3. 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?

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

5. With what rowing crew did the Washington boys get into a brawl in the cafeteria prior to the Olympic Games in 1936?

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