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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does it mean when an athlete gets an endorsement offer?
(a) The athlete is asked to become a coach.
(b) The athlete is asked to support a product or service.
(c) The athlete is asked to resign from the sport.
(d) The athlete is asked to join a new team.

2. What are the names of Wooden's parents?
(a) Joshua and Nellie.
(b) John and Roxie.
(c) Joshua and Roxie.
(d) John and Nellie.

3. Who does Wooden think are kids' greatest teachers?
(a) Their friends.
(b) Their school teachers.
(c) Their coaches.
(d) Their parents.

4. What does Wooden feel could happen if you attain a goal for which you haven't fully prepared?
(a) You'll pay for it later in life.
(b) You'll feel even better about it.
(c) You'll be seen as lucky.
(d) It will be worth less to you.

5. Wooden believes that the goals in life are the same as the goals in what?
(a) Marriage.
(b) Friendship.
(c) Teaching.
(d) Basketball.

6. When Wooden talks about a player thinking more about the team than about himself, Wooden illustrates the idea of what?
(a) Sacrifice.
(b) Timidity.
(c) Failure.
(d) Peer pressure.

7. Wooden states that when people get too caught up in believing they will "always" win, they stop doing what?
(a) Celebrating their successes.
(b) Preparing to succeed.
(c) Being good friends.
(d) Getting into trouble.

8. What doesn't Wooden think has changed over the years?
(a) The need for fame.
(b) The desire to win.
(c) The terms in basketball.
(d) UCLA players.

9. Wooden describes his marriage how?
(a) Successful.
(b) Unfulfilling.
(c) Horrible.
(d) Sad.

10. What does Wooden think will happen if a person has goals that he or she cannot reach?
(a) It will make the person work harder to prove everyone wrong.
(b) The person won't think there is any use in trying to reach them.
(c) The person will become an inspiration to all those around him/her.
(d) The goals will actually be reached because nothing is really impossible.

11. What does Wooden think of people trying to achieve goals that will or could harm themselves?
(a) He thinks it's the sign of a successful player.
(b) He is against it.
(c) He feels it's a part of life.
(d) He is for it.

12. Wooden feels that a person should never do what?
(a) Become a coach and teacher.
(b) Go to the Olympics.
(c) Try to work out every day.
(d) Cut corners.

13. Wooden believes every person who wants to succeed must be willing to pay what?
(a) The piper.
(b) The bills.
(c) The price.
(d) On time.

14. How does Wooden feel about his players who went on to do something else than become professional ball players?
(a) He thinks they didn't try as hard as his other players.
(b) He wishes they had been able to achieve more and feels sorry for them.
(c) He thinks much less of them than he does of his other players.
(d) He is just as proud of them as he is of his other players.

15. Who does Wooden believe had a better definition of success than the one in Webster's dictionary?
(a) His father.
(b) His wife.
(c) Himself.
(d) One of his students.

Short Answer Questions

1. Wooden believes that in order to be successful, you do not have to have what?

2. Throughout his life, Wooden has always loved what, thanks to his father?

3. What does Wooden say will create success in any person's life?

4. Wooden says you should feel what emotion when you give something your all?

5. During Part 2 of "Wooden," Wooden talks about the contributions of whom?

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