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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Coach Wooden tell Kenny Washington when he catches Kenny crying because he is homesick?
(a) Go call your mom.
(b) Basketball players do not cry.
(c) Shape up or ship out.
(d) It is okay to be homesick.

2. What promise did Coach Wooden make to Eddie, a young member of his South Bend team?
(a) To remove him from the team if his attitude does not change.
(b) To buy his parents tickets to the game if they go to championships.
(c) To start him in the next game.
(d) To practice his free throws with him everyday.

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

4. How did Coach Wooden deal with players who stood up to him?
(a) He kicked the player off the team.
(b) He sent the player to his teammates.
(c) He sent the player to the assistant coach.
(d) He tried to understand the player's point of view.

5. Where was Wooden's first high-school coaching job?
(a) Martinsville High School.
(b) Dayton High School.
(c) South Bend High School.
(d) Springfield High School.

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

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

8. What took Wooden away from his home in 1943?
(a) Another job.
(b) An offer to play professional basketball.
(c) A family crisis.
(d) World War II.

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

10. According to Coach Wooden, a true athlete should have what?
(a) Talent.
(b) Skill.
(c) Principles.
(d) Character.

11. Who does Coach Wooden refer to as a "team leader"?
(a) Fred Slaughter.
(b) Willie Haulls.
(c) Walt Hazzard.
(d) Gail Goodrich.

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

13. Who eventually became principal and superintendent of Martinsville Schools?
(a) Coach Curtis.
(b) Cat Wooden.
(c) Nellie Wooden.
(d) Coach Wooden.

14. What coaching concept applied by Coach Curtis did Coach Wooden disagree with?
(a) Firing up the team emotionally before a game.
(b) Becoming friends with the players.
(c) Giving all the players a fair chance to play.
(d) Sitting those who missed practice on the bench.

15. Most of Coach Wooden's college players were what?
(a) African Americans.
(b) Veterans.
(c) Older.
(d) Inexperienced.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What did Coach Wooden's high-school coach prohibit his players from doing during basketball season?

4. How did Wooden lose all the money he had saved?

5. In what year did Coach Wooden's UCLA team win the NCAA championship game?

(see the answer keys)

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