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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13-15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Many of the players on Wooden's first college team has also been what?
(a) Married at a young age.
(b) Raised on a farm.
(c) Players on his high-school team.
(d) Players on the college baseball team.

2. When Coach Wooden was a child, what was his first basketball hoop made out of?
(a) An old tire.
(b) A tomato basket.
(c) A hallowed out piece of wood.
(d) A bucket.

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

4. What did Coach Wooden's brother do to him as a child that make him very angry?
(a) Flipped manure on him.
(b) Pushed him in the pond.
(c) Locked him in the barn.
(d) Punched him in the stomach.

5. What incident caused Coach Wooden to refer to the coach/player relationship as a father/son relationship?
(a) Pulling a star player out of the championship game.
(b) Watching his team lose the championship game.
(c) Kicking a player off the team for having a bad attitude.
(d) Taking an injured player to the hospital.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Wooden replace as coach at Indiana State?

2. What did players often come to Coach Wooden wearing that were too big?

3. In what year did Wooden start college?

4. According to Coach Wooden, Coach Lambert coached based on what?

5. What rank was Coach Wooden called to serve at once he enlisted?

(see the answer key)

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