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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Taking an injured player to the hospital.
(c) Watching his team lose the championship game.
(d) Kicking a player off the team for having a bad attitude.

2. What part-time job did Wooden have when he started college?
(a) Working in the college's laundry room.
(b) Cooking in a local restaurant.
(c) Waiting tables and washing dishes.
(d) A groundskeeper.

3. 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) Sitting those who missed practice on the bench.
(d) Giving all the players a fair chance to play.

4. Why did Wooden stay a coach when he could have earned much more money as a professional player?
(a) His wife didn't want him to play professionally.
(b) He loved the young people he coached.
(c) He didn't get any professional offers.
(d) He was getting too old to play professional basketball.

5. Why didn't Wooden go overseas while in the military?
(a) He was not qualified.
(b) There were too many soldiers overseas and not enough stateside.
(c) He was better at helping other soldiers than fighting.
(d) Japan surrendered before he shipped out.

Short Answer Questions

1. Doug McIntosh was at UCLA on a make good scholarship. What does this mean?

2. Why did Nellie and Coach Wooden break up several times during high school?

3. Who encouraged Coach Wooden to wait until after college to marry Nellie?

4. Why did Coach Wooden's family move to Martinsville?

5. In what year did Coach Wooden enlist in the military?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain Coach Lambert's coaching philosophy.

2. Describe Coach Wooden's team his first year at Indiana State University.

3. In Chapter 2, where did Coach meet Nellie and why did he like her?

4. Describe Coach Wooden and Nellie's wedding.

5. Describe how Coach Wooden learned to play basketball as a child.

6. Explain the offer Coach Wooden received between his junior and senior year at Purdue, including the outcome.

7. Why didn't Coach Wooden remain a high-school basketball coach?

8. How did Coach Wooden come to have a "good luck charm"?

9. Describe Wooden's relationship with his high-school coach Glenn Curtis.

10. Once enlisted in the military, what stopped Coach Wooden from serving overseas?

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