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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Coach Wooden do six or seven times over his career at UCLA?
(a) Evaluated what kept his team from winning.
(b) Evaluated his playbook.
(c) Evaluated his coaching techniques.
(d) Evaluated his staff of assistant coaches.

2. What moment does Coach Wooden refer to as "the peak" of his career?
(a) Receiving his job at UCLA.
(b) Making it to the NCAA championship game for the first time.
(c) Watching Walt Hazzard score the winning basket at a champanionship game.
(d) A conversation he has with Fred Slaughter after a game.

3. What incident caused Coach Wooden to refer to the coach/player relationship as a father/son relationship?
(a) Taking an injured player to the hospital.
(b) Watching his team lose the championship game.
(c) Kicking a player off the team for having a bad attitude.
(d) Pulling a star player out of the championship game.

4. Besides coaching at the high-school level, what class did Coach Wooden teach?
(a) Math.
(b) English.
(c) Science.
(d) Geography.

5. Coach Wooden taught his players that basketball was...?
(a) The most important thing in the world.
(b) Going to change their lives forever.
(c) The greatest sport.
(d) Not the most important thing in the world.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Coach Wooden meet his future wife, Nellie?

2. How many free throws did a player have to make at practice in order to play in the scrimmages?

3. Who stopped Walt Hazzard from quitting the team?

4. How did Coach Wooden deal with players who stood up to him?

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

(see the answer key)

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