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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. In what year did Wooden start college?
2. What prevented Wooden from fulfilling his position in the South Pacific?
3. After Coach Wooden's first high-school coaching job, where did he move for his second high-school coaching job?
4. Where did Coach Wooden meet his future wife, Nellie?
5. What took Wooden away from his home in 1943?
Short Essay Questions
1. Explain Coach Lambert's coaching philosophy.
2. In Chapter 1, Coach Wooden says that Jack Hirsch was a bully, but he later realized Jack was lacking in confidence. Why do people who lack confidence sometimes bully?
3. In Chapter 1, did Coach Wooden made the right decision by pulling Fred Slaughter from the championship game?
4. What caused Coach Wooden to enlist in the military?
5. Did Fred Slaughter respect Coach Wooden?
6. Explain Coach Wooden's duties and pay when he got his first high-school coaching job in Dayton.
7. Describe Coach Wooden's team his first year at Indiana State University.
8. What is the meaning of this quote by Coach Wooden, "the true athlete should have character, not be a character"?
9. Describe how Coach Wooden learned to play basketball as a child.
10. How did Coach Wooden come to have a "good luck charm"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
There are several occasions in the book where Coach Wooden discusses removing players from a game or practice for different reasons.
Part 1) Compare the different occasions and reasons. How are they similar? How are they different?
Part 2) Do you think Coach was right or wrong in each of these occasions. Why?
Part 3) Do Coach's decisions make the players better players? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 2
Coach Wooden takes about how the coach/player relationship becomes like a father/son relationship. Compare and contrast the relationship between a coach and a player and a father and son. Give examples from the book.
Essay Topic 3
Coach Wooden discussed many of his players and interactions he had with them. Choose three of Coach Wooden's players, discuss what you learned from them and give your opinion on how Coach Wooden influenced them.
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