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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Coach's favorite poem, "They Ask Me Why I Teach," what was the answer to the author's question?
(a) Where else could I find more splendid company?
(b) Where else could I spend so much time with children.
(c) Where else could I help children learn?
(d) Where else could I influence young people?

2. Coach Wooden taught his players that basketball was...?
(a) Going to change their lives forever.
(b) The most important thing in the world.
(c) Not the most important thing in the world.
(d) The greatest sport.

3. Coach Wooden's father told his to "drink deeply from good books, especially ..."
(a) His basketball play book.
(b) His college textbooks.
(c) The bible.
(d) The dictionary,

4. As Coach Wooden's children grew up and had their own children, what did they make sure they still did?
(a) Eat dinner together every Friday.
(b) Get together for Christmas.
(c) Spend Sunday afternoons together.
(d) Attend all their father's games.

5. Where did Wooden go the morning after his wedding?
(a) To basketball practice.
(b) To look for a job.
(c) To help his coach recruit new players.
(d) To a basketball clinic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Coach Wooden show his players how to do every year?

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

3. In what year did Coach Wooden enlist in the military?

4. Why did Coach Wooden's family move to Martinsville?

5. After Coach Wooden's first high-school coaching job, where did he move for his second high-school coaching job?

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