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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 25-27.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When some players showed up clearly breaking the haircut rule, what did Coach Wooden do?
(a) Made fun of them.
(b) Made them cut their hair in the training room.
(c) Required them to put their hair back during a game.
(d) Removed them from the team.

2. What kind of comments did Kareem receive from the press?
(a) Mostly comments about his race.
(b) Mostly comments about his poor attitude.
(c) Mostly comments about his skill.
(d) Mostly comments about his family.

3. Why did Nellie and Coach Wooden break up several times during high school?
(a) She wanted to go out dancing and he couldn't.
(b) His friends did not like her.
(c) They argued a lot.
(d) Her father did not like him.

4. Where would Coach have stayed if it were up to him?
(a) Purdue.
(b) Dayton.
(c) Martinsville.
(d) South Bend.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Besides coaching at the high-school level, what class did Coach Wooden teach?

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

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

4. Coach Wooden believes that no coach should be trusted with the responsibility of a team unless he is what?

5. What took Wooden away from his home in 1943?

(see the answer key)

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