They Call Me Coach Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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They Call Me Coach Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Wooden attend college?
(a) UCLA.
(b) Indiana State.
(c) University of Alabama.
(d) Purdue.

2. After Coach Wooden's first high-school coaching job, where did he move for his second high-school coaching job?
(a) South Bend.
(b) Omaha.
(c) Dayton.
(d) Los Angeles.

3. Coach Lambert taught his players movement by design instead of what?
(a) Repeated patterns.
(b) Precise rebounds.
(c) Exact dribbling.
(d) Memorizing moves.

4. What did Wooden do after the war?
(a) Played for a professional basketball team.
(b) Returned to his old coaching position in South Bend.
(c) Found a new job at a high school in Georgia.
(d) Stayed in the military, training men for battle.

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

6. What signal did Coach Wooden give to Nellie before each high-school game?
(a) He gave her the okay sign.
(b) He waved at her.
(c) He blew her a kiss.
(d) He winked at her.

7. One of Wooden's favorite quotes says, "do not let what you can't do interfere with...?
(a) What you can do.
(b) Your God-given talent.
(c) Your natural abilities.
(d) What you won't do.

8. Coach Wooden's father told his to "drink deeply from good books, especially ..."
(a) His college textbooks.
(b) The dictionary,
(c) His basketball play book.
(d) The bible.

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

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

11. According to Coach Wooden, Coach Lambert coached based on what?
(a) The playbook provided to him.
(b) The ability of his players.
(c) The moves he learned as a player.
(d) The plays made by the opposing team.

12. Veterans who wanted to go to college after the war could go at the military's expense. This was called the what?
(a) Military College Act.
(b) G.I. Bill
(c) Veteran College Bill.
(d) Education for Veterans Bill.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Coach Wooden say a coach often feels about his players?

2. When Coach Wooden was a child, what was his first basketball hoop made out of?

3. Many of the players on Wooden's first college team has also been what?

4. In what year of Coach Wooden's college coaching experience, did his team win their conference title?

5. How did Wooden feel about money as a high-school student?

(see the answer keys)

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