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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 Coach Wooden enlist in the military?

2. What part-time job did Wooden have when he started college?

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

4. Because of an incident between Coach Wooden and his brother as children, what did he vow never to do?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 1, did Coach Wooden made the right decision by pulling Fred Slaughter from the championship game?

2. Describe the incident in Chapter 2 between Coach Wooden and his brother and the impact it had on Coach.

3. What caused Coach Wooden to take his first college teaching position?

4. In Chapter 8, Coach Wooden says that coaches can sometimes be subconsciously influenced by their players. What does he mean by this?

5. Discuss some of the advice Coach Wooden's father gave him in his elementary graduation letter.

6. Why didn't Coach Wooden seek a career as a professional basketball player?

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

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

9. Why didn't Coach Wooden and Nellie have enough money for the wedding they had planned?

10. Describe Keith Erickson.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Coach Wooden discussed many people that were good at recruiting for UCLA.

Write about the different people who Coach thought were good at recruiting and why.

Essay Topic 2

Coach Wooden left his coaching temporarily to enlist in WWII.

Part 1) Describe what event caused Coach Wooden to voluntarily enlist in the military.

Part 2) Based on what you know about Coach Wooden, write about what kind of solider you think he would have been. Use specific examples from the book that describe his personality and character traits.

Essay Topic 3

Coach Wooden's father gave him a note for his elementary school graduation with advice about life. Coach Wooden said that he decided to live his life according to the advice in the note and kept it in his wallet his whole life. Choose several of the points in the note and write about how Coach Wooden applied each of the points to his life. Use specific examples from the book to support what you write.

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