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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Coach Wooden, what was the one thing that was holding back his UCLA team?
(a) A better recruiting system.
(b) A good assistant coach.
(c) More money for training.
(d) A good place to play.

2. Many of the players on Wooden's first college team has also been what?
(a) Players on his high-school team.
(b) Players on the college baseball team.
(c) Married at a young age.
(d) Raised on a farm.

3. What was Coach Wooden most surprised about when he began coaching at UCLA?
(a) How much money the assistant coaches received.
(b) How big the fan base was.
(c) How horrible the team was.
(d) How many great players he had.

4. Where did Coach Wooden have the worse record of his career?
(a) Dayton High School.
(b) South Bend High School.
(c) Indiana State.
(d) UCLA.

5. Why did Coach Wooden like to have a different combination of players playing together during practice?
(a) So players would be used to playing with each other during the game.
(b) So players would get over their prejudices.
(c) So players would become friends with each other.
(d) So players appreciate team members.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Coach Wooden get upset with his high-school basketball coach, Glenn Curtis?

2. What did Coach Wooden learn from Notre Dame football coach Frank Leahy?

3. When the Wooden family moved to Martinsville, what did Coach Wooden's father do for a living?

4. When a reporter asked one of Coach Wooden's players about racial problems on the team, what was the player's response?

5. What made Coach Wooden want to enlist in the military?

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