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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In what year did Coach Wooden's UCLA team win the NCAA championship game?
(a) 1974.
(b) 1964.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1966.

4. Where was Coach Wooden's first college coaching job?
(a) The University of Alabama.
(b) UCLA.
(c) Indiana State University.
(d) The University of Indiana.

5. What made Coach Wooden want to enlist in the military?
(a) He had lost his coaching job.
(b) His father's legacy.
(c) Nellie's insistence that the pay was good.
(d) Ther Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Short Answer Questions

1. One of Wooden's favorite quotes says, "do not let what you can't do interfere with...?

2. Where would Coach have stayed if it were up to him?

3. In what year did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, drawing the US into World War II?

4. Where was freshman player Kenny Washington from?

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

(see the answer key)

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