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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. How did Wooden lose all the money he had saved?
(a) He misplaced it.
(b) It was stolen.
(c) His bank defaulted.
(d) He loaned it to a friend who never paid him back.

3. What does Coach Wooden say a coach often feels about his players?
(a) He feels like they are too time consuming.
(b) He feels like they are the number one priority.
(c) He feels like they are prideful.
(d) He feels like they are family.

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

5. Wooden learned that students who do what, can get free tuition?
(a) Play on the basketball team.
(b) Make the dean's list.
(c) Have parents who are alumni.
(d) Have at least a B average.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 1, who did Coach Wooden remove from the championship game because he was having an off night?

2. What other sport did Fred Slaughter play at UCLA?

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

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

5. Coach Wooden's father told his to "drink deeply from good books, especially ..."

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