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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. Wooden says his parents worked without what?
(a) Love.
(b) Complaining.
(c) Money.
(d) An education.

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

3. What president does Wooden admire?
(a) Ulysses S. Grant.
(b) Abraham Lincoln.
(c) John F. Kennedy.
(d) George Washington.

4. Wooden thinks a person's goals should be difficult to achieve but not what?
(a) Desirable.
(b) Impossible.
(c) Fun.
(d) Profitable.

5. What does Wooden seem to hold as the highest standard of his success?
(a) His family.
(b) His mentoring.
(c) His team.
(d) His father.

Short Answer Questions

1. Wooden believes that the goals in life are the same as the goals in what?

2. What does Wooden say his father read to the family regularly?

3. Wooden says he ran his basketball team like he ran his what?

4. Wooden isn't paid large amounts of money to do what?

5. What does Wooden quote throughout "Wooden"?

Short Essay Questions

1. For Wooden, "success" isn't defined by money or fame. How is it described?

2. Describe John and Nellie Wooden's marriage.

3. How does Wooden approach each day?

4. Why doesn't Wooden become a basketball player himself?

5. What does Wooden think will happen if a person's goals are impossible to attain?

6. Why does Wooden disagree with the Webster's dictionary term for success?

7. For Wooden, personal glory comes second to what?

8. How does Wooden's father's "teaching" personality carry over into his sons?

9. Wooden believes that the media has made winning different. Why?

10. Why does Wooden want his players to want to please him rather than wanting them to be afraid of disappointing him?

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