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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who loaned Wooden some money for his wedding?
(a) Nellie's best friend's father.
(b) Coach Curtis.
(c) Wooden's father.
(d) Nellie's father.

2. Where did Coach Wooden meet his future wife, Nellie?
(a) At a high-school basketball game.
(b) At his summer job.
(c) At church.
(d) At a summer carnival.

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

4. What made Coach Wooden want to enlist in the military?
(a) He had lost his coaching job.
(b) Nellie's insistence that the pay was good.
(c) His father's legacy.
(d) Ther Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

5. According to Coach Wooden, Coach Lambert coached based on what?
(a) The moves he learned as a player.
(b) The playbook provided to him.
(c) The ability of his players.
(d) The plays made by the opposing team.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Wooden served in the military in Georgia, what was his duty?

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

3. After Wooden and Nellie got married, how much money a week did Wooden make working with Coach Curtis?

4. While on vacation, what did Coach Wooden decide to give up for good?

5. What does Wooden say that many coaches and players develop during their career?

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