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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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) Wink Winslow.
(b) George Hunt.
(c) Bobby Moch.
(d) Royal Brougham.

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

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

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

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

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

10. What crew member for the University of Washington varsity crew in 1936 hailed from Anacortes, Washington, and was an accomplished pianist and athlete?
(a) Don Hume.
(b) Gordy Adam.
(c) Avery Brundage.
(d) Wink Winslow.

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

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) Olympia.
(b) Ulysses.
(c) Zweites Buch.
(d) Mein Kampf.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How tall was Bobby Moch in 1936?

2. Who was the coach of the U.S. women's swimming team that expelled Eleanor Holm from the Olympic team due to her drinking in 1936?

3. What crews were the University of Washington boys assigned to race for their preliminary regatta at the 1936 Olympics?

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

5. 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?

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