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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 19-21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Coach Wooden try to get out of his contract with UCLA?
(a) To accept a position as an assistant coach of a professional team.
(b) His family wanted to move back to Indiana.
(c) To accept a lucrative offer at Purdue.
(d) He did not like the other coaches.

2. Who eventually became principal and superintendent of Martinsville Schools?
(a) Coach Wooden.
(b) Cat Wooden.
(c) Coach Curtis.
(d) Nellie Wooden.

3. How did Wooden lose all the money he had saved?
(a) His bank defaulted.
(b) He loaned it to a friend who never paid him back.
(c) He misplaced it.
(d) It was stolen.

4. Where did Wooden attend college?
(a) UCLA.
(b) Indiana State.
(c) Purdue.
(d) University of Alabama.

5. Which of the following is not a key concept in Coach Wooden's idea of success?
(a) Fight.
(b) Faith.
(c) Team spirit.
(d) Frugality.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Coach Wooden, what did Kareem personify?

2. What coaching concept applied by Coach Curtis did Coach Wooden disagree with?

3. What were the facilities like at UCLA?

4. Wooden learned that students who do what, can get free tuition?

5. In Coach Wooden's first year coaching at UCLA, how did the team do?

(see the answer key)

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