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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 learn from Notre Dame football coach Frank Leahy?
(a) Recruiting skills.
(b) How to keep players.
(c) How to motivate players.
(d) Organizational skills.

2. From whom did Coach Wooden learn his managerial skills?
(a) Nellie.
(b) His father.
(c) Walter Alston.
(d) Frank Leahy.

3. Coach Wooden says that failure is not what?
(a) The end.
(b) Fatal.
(c) An option.
(d) Possible.

4. When did most of Coach Wooden's conversations with his players take place?
(a) On the court during practice.
(b) During weekly team meetings.
(c) In the locker room after a game.
(d) In the locker room during half time.

5. If Coach Wooden's players lost, what were they not allowed to do?
(a) Leave the locker room until he spoke with them.
(b) Be hard on themselves.
(c) Hang their heads.
(d) Hug each other.

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

7. What were the facilities like at UCLA?
(a) There were none.
(b) State of the art.
(c) Average.
(d) In poor condition.

8. What did players often come to Coach Wooden wearing that were too big?
(a) Socks.
(b) Shoes.
(c) Shorts.
(d) Headbands.

9. How many titles did the team win while Kareem was a player?
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) One.

10. How did Coach Wooden learn to treat his players from LA Dodgers manager Walter Alston?
(a) Like scorpions.
(b) Like doves.
(c) Like bears.
(d) Like lions.

11. After Kareem and several other superstars graduated, what did Coach Wooden want his team to become?
(a) A more competitive team.
(b) A normal college basketball team.
(c) Another superstar team.
(d) An even greater team.

12. In what year did Kareem Abdul-Jabbar announce he would play for UCLA?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1960.
(c) 1967.
(d) 1964.

13. What did Coach Wooden want his players to believe the worse punishment was?
(a) Being kicked off the team.
(b) Watching from the bench, but not being allowed to play.
(c) Being banned from practice.
(d) Being banned from a game.

14. Coach Wooden emphasizes that players are only as good as their what?
(a) Attitude.
(b) Practice habits.
(c) Worse shot.
(d) Feet.

15. Coach Wooden believes that no coach should be trusted with the responsibility of a team unless he is what?
(a) Spiritually strong.
(b) Ready to accept losing as much as winning.
(c) Ready to disciple when necessary.
(d) An excellent player himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Coach Wooden's children grew up and had their own children, what did they make sure they still did?

2. According to Coach Wooden, what did Kareem personify?

3. What is Coach Wooden's basic idea of success?

4. What gave Kareem vertical double vision during one game?

5. What did Coach Wooden abandon when he realized it does not influence the players?

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