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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4 & 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. As a child, what did Coach Wooden stuff with rags to make a ball?
(a) His brother's overalls.
(b) His father's old shirt.
(c) Strips of cloth left over from his mom's sewing.
(d) His mother's hosiery.

3. Before his senior year, who was Wooden recruited by?
(a) University of Indiana.
(b) Harvard.
(c) UCLA.
(d) US Military Academy at West Point.

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

5. In what year did Wooden start college?
(a) 1918.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1928.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What part-time job did Wooden have when he started college?

3. Where did Wooden attend college?

4. When Coach Wooden was a child, what was his first basketball hoop made out of?

5. What moment does Coach Wooden refer to as "the peak" of his career?

(see the answer key)

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