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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For Wooden, success in a game is what?
(a) The only goal.
(b) Practically impossible to achieve.
(c) Not the final score.
(d) A money-making opportunity for a team and coach.

2. How does Wooden feel now that he's no longer coaching at UCLA?
(a) He feels overjoyed about it.
(b) He feels sad about it.
(c) He feels it was just a moment in time.
(d) He tries not to think about it.

3. What does Wooden try to do with his players' internal prides?
(a) Get rid of them.
(b) Keep them intact.
(c) Learn from them.
(d) Help them grow.

4. The secondary layer of Wooden's diagram of reaching success includes which two elements?
(a) Greed and faith.
(b) Alertness and initiative.
(c) Realism and Pessimism.
(d) Love and hope.

5. What does Wooden say about the criticism he has received?
(a) He likes it because it means he's beaten someone else.
(b) He tries not to let it hurt his feelings.
(c) He tries to retaliate against those who criticize him.
(d) He feels it's just part of being a good coach.

6. What does Wooden say that team players have to feel about themselves?
(a) That they can go on to get tons of money.
(b) That they can all be teachers.
(c) That they've accomplished something.
(d) That they can join the NBA.

7. When Wooden retired, he told his team what?
(a) He felt too tired to go on.
(b) He was ashamed of them.
(c) He didn't want to be around them any more.
(d) It was time to move on with his life.

8. Wooden ends "Wooden" with a poem that seems to be a reminder of his love for what?
(a) His father.
(b) His children.
(c) His players.
(d) Literature.

9. What does Wooden seem to think of his skills as a basketball tactician?
(a) He thinks he's terrible.
(b) He thinks he's successful.
(c) He thinks he's great.
(d) He thinks he's average.

10. How does Wooden think people should feel about the work they do?
(a) They should always be perfect.
(b) They should love their work.
(c) They should work without sleep or food.
(d) They should get through their work as quickly as possible.

11. What two elements does Wooden say are the "mortar" keeping his physical representation of success together?
(a) Faith and talent.
(b) Faith and charity.
(c) Hope and faith.
(d) Patience and faith.

12. What are the first "two blocks" (aka, the "base") of success that Wooden describes?
(a) Industriousness and enthusiasm.
(b) Self-control and alertness.
(c) Fame and glory.
(d) Discipline and respect.

13. How much of a person's job does Wooden believe a person should be able to do?
(a) At least a little of it.
(b) Most of it.
(c) As much of it as he or she can.
(d) All of it.

14. Three constants throughout Wooden's life are his love for his wife, his respect/love for his father, and what?
(a) His thoughts on UCLA.
(b) His faith.
(c) His unhappiness with the regular Olympics.
(d) His desire to make money.

15. What type of person does Wooden say motivates by fear of discipline?
(a) A monster.
(b) A sociopath.
(c) A dictator.
(d) A fascist.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sometimes, players who had things going on in their lives wanted Wooden to do what?

2. In Wooden's opinion, "[b]eing aware of the things that will influence your situation" is described as what?

3. Joshua Wooden and what other person are the influences on Wooden's physical representation of success?

4. What does Wooden say about his wife, Nellie, at the end of "Wooden"?

5. Wooden says "being fair" doesn't mean what?

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