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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What caused Wooden to return to his high-school basketball team after he walked off the team?
(a) Several conversations with Nellie.
(b) Several conversations with his brother, Cat.
(c) Several conversations with his father.
(d) Several conversations with Coach Curtis.

3. When Walt Hazzard played in a game, he liked to stand out by doing which of the following?
(a) Getting the rebounds.
(b) Fancy dribbling.
(c) Scoring the majority of the points.
(d) Making three point shots.

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

5. Who did Wooden replace as coach at Indiana State?
(a) Doug McIntosh.
(b) Glenn Curtis.
(c) Fred Slaughter.
(d) Kenny Washington.

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

7. How did Wooden lose all the money he had saved?
(a) His bank defaulted.
(b) He misplaced it.
(c) It was stolen.
(d) He loaned it to a friend who never paid him back.

8. How did Doug McIntosh feel when Coach Wooden pulled him from the championship game?
(a) He was angry because he didn't get to play.
(b) He was mad at his fellow teammates.
(c) He was depressed because his family came to watch him.
(d) He was happy because the team won.

9. Where did Coach Wooden spot future guard Gail Goodrich playing basketball?
(a) Outside the dorm at UCLA.
(b) At another college.
(c) Outside his apartment complex.
(d) At a high-school basketball game.

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

11. Coach Wooden's father told him to make each day what?
(a) The best day it can be.
(b) A new beginning.
(c) A masterpiece.
(d) Great.

12. Where was freshman player Kenny Washington from?
(a) South Carolina.
(b) New York.
(c) Florida.
(d) Alabama.

13. What signal did Coach Wooden give to Nellie before each game when he was a coach?
(a) He waved at her with his rolled up program.
(b) He winked at her.
(c) He whistled at her.
(d) He introduced her to the crowd.

14. What made team forward Keith Erickson very upset during games?
(a) If Coach Wooden yelled at him.
(b) If he made a foul.
(c) If he didn't get the opportunity to score.
(d) If the referee made a bad call.

15. In Coach's favorite poem, "They Ask Me Why I Teach," what was the answer to the author's question?
(a) Where else could I find more splendid company?
(b) Where else could I influence young people?
(c) Where else could I help children learn?
(d) Where else could I spend so much time with children.

Short Answer Questions

1. What signal did Coach Wooden give to Nellie before each high-school game?

2. After Wooden and Nellie got married, how much money a week did Wooden make working with Coach Curtis?

3. After Coach Wooden's first high-school coaching job, where did he move for his second high-school coaching job?

4. After the war, what was difficult for Coach Wooden's family to find in South Bend?

5. Veterans who wanted to go to college after the war could go at the military's expense. This was called the what?

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