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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6 & 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who encouraged Coach Wooden to wait until after college to marry Nellie?
(a) His coach.
(b) His mother.
(c) His father.
(d) Nellie's mother.

2. How did Wooden supplement his income?
(a) By playing pro basketball on the weekends.
(b) By selling sports stories to the local newspaper.
(c) By waiting tables on the weekend.
(d) By running basketball training camps in the summer.

3. What does Wooden say that many coaches and players develop during their career?
(a) Bad habits.
(b) Superstitions.
(c) Family problems.
(d) Health problems.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What signal did Coach Wooden give to Nellie before each game when he was a coach?

2. During many games, Coach Wooden told Jack Hirsch to stop acting like a what?

3. What did Coach Wooden always carry in his wallet?

4. What incident caused Coach Wooden to refer to the coach/player relationship as a father/son relationship?

5. As a child, what did Coach Wooden stuff with rags to make a ball?

(see the answer key)

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