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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. One of Wooden's favorite quotes says, "do not let what you can't do interfere with...?
(a) Your God-given talent.
(b) What you can do.
(c) Your natural abilities.
(d) What you won't do.

2. How did Nellie and Wooden celebrate after their wedding ceremony?
(a) They went to an expensive hotel.
(b) They went to dinner and a concert.
(c) They went to dinner and dancing.
(d) They moved into their apartment.

3. In what year did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, drawing the US into World War II?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1948.
(d) 1950.

4. In what year did Coach Wooden enlist in the military?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1928.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1942.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Coach Wooden teaches his players it isn't what you do, it's...?

2. At his first high-school coaching job, what was Coach Wooden's salary?

3. Why did Nellie and Coach Wooden break up several times during high school?

4. Why did Coach Wooden reject an offer to play at the NAIA tournament in Kansas City?

5. Many of the players on Wooden's first college team has also been what?

(see the answer key)

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