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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From what village in the Ukraine was Bernard Berg?
(a) Kippinya.
(b) Kharkiv.
(c) Dnipropetrovsk.
(d) Zaporizhia.

2. How many games did Moe Berg play in the season of 1933?
(a) 17.
(b) 40.
(c) 31.
(d) 20.

3. Who arranged for three players to go to Japan to teach baseball seminars at Japanese universities during the winter of 1932?
(a) Clifton Fadiman.
(b) Antonio Ferri.
(c) Theodore Von Karman.
(d) Herb Hunter.

4. At what age had Moe Berg begun playing baseball?
(a) 4.
(b) 9.
(c) 5.
(d) 7.

5. Part of the reason Moe was a quiet student in college was an underlying prejudice against what that existed at the school at the time?
(a) Muslims.
(b) Jews.
(c) Mormons.
(d) Christians.

6. Who picked up Moe Berg after his unconditional release from the Cleveland Indians?
(a) The Washington Senators.
(b) The Toledo Mud Hens.
(c) The Little Rock Travelers.
(d) The Minneapolis Millers.

7. What sports columnist was credited with creating the public image of Moe Berg in Chapter 1, "The Public Berg: Professor Moe"?
(a) Joe Cronin.
(b) John Kieran.
(c) Tony Calvert.
(d) Aldo Icardi.

8. Who collected Moe Berg paraphernalia, including pictures and papers given to him by Sam Berg, as described in the Prologue?
(a) Gian Carlo Wick.
(b) Clifton Fadiman.
(c) Charles Owen.
(d) Niels Bohr.

9. Moe Berg ended up getting into only how many games in the entire 1930 season?
(a) 5.
(b) 12.
(c) 20.
(d) 14.

10. When did Moe Berg return to the United States from Paris in Chapter 5, "Good Field, No Hit"?
(a) 1924.
(b) 1926.
(c) 1920.
(d) 1929.

11. On what date did the group of three players began their circuit of Japanese universities in Chapter 7, "Strange Foreigner with Camera"?
(a) January 5, 1923.
(b) May 4, 1928.
(c) October 22, 1932.
(d) July 28, 1929.

12. Who picked up Berg in 1931 when Chicago put him on waivers?
(a) The Cleveland Indians.
(b) The New York Yankees.
(c) The Brooklyn Dodgers.
(d) The Milwaukee Brewers.

13. When was Babe Ruth born?
(a) 1904.
(b) 1895.
(c) 1879.
(d) 1901.

14. When was Lou Gehrig born?
(a) 1892.
(b) 1903.
(c) 1895.
(d) 1868.

15. When did the Senators give Moe Berg his unconditional release?
(a) July 25, 1934.
(b) August 1, 1939.
(c) June 17, 1933.
(d) July 4, 1936.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the maiden name of Moe Berg's mother?

2. What was Moe Berg's batting average after the 1932 season?

3. Who established and headed the OIAA?

4. Who was the Senators' starting catcher in 1933?

5. The teams that approached Moe Berg after his college graduation were looking for a player who was what in order to bring in fans?

(see the answer keys)

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