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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8 & 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After Wooden and Nellie got married, how much money a week did Wooden make working with Coach Curtis?
(a) $500.
(b) $25.
(c) $100.
(d) $250.

2. What did Wooden do after the war?
(a) Played for a professional basketball team.
(b) Found a new job at a high school in Georgia.
(c) Returned to his old coaching position in South Bend.
(d) Stayed in the military, training men for battle.

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

4. Which player replaced the player who was removed by Coach Wooden from the championship game?
(a) Gail Goodrich.
(b) Doug McIntosh.
(c) Fred Slaughter.
(d) Walt Hazzard.

5. What prevented Wooden from fulfilling his position in the South Pacific?
(a) A new assignment.
(b) An appendectomy.
(c) Nellie's sickness.
(d) A broken arm.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Wooden's first high-school coaching job?

2. In Coach's favorite poem, "They Ask Me Why I Teach," what was the answer to the author's question?

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

4. Where was freshman player Kenny Washington from?

5. Which player did Coach Wooden discover was lacking in confidence?

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