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

2. What organization does Wooden support?
(a) The American Heart Association.
(b) The Humane Society.
(c) The American Cancer Society.
(d) Special Olympics.

3. How does Wooden describe the way his parents worked?
(a) He says they worked hard.
(b) He says they didn't work enough.
(c) He says they worked too much.
(d) He says they worked quickly.

4. What year was Wooden born?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1930.
(c) 1920.
(d) 1910.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Wooden feels that people can never reach what state?

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

3. Wooden feels the goal to reach perfection is what?

4. Wooden feels that strong support in a family results in what?

5. What family member does Wooden talk the most about during Part 1 of "Wooden"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Wooden think happens to a person who becomes "infected" by success?

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

3. Why does Wooden run his basketball team like he runs his household?

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

5. What is the basic focus of the beginning of the book "Wooden"?

6. Why do Wooden's brothers all become teachers?

7. Describe John and Nellie Wooden's marriage.

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

9. Wooden's primary love is not basketball. What is it?

10. How does Wooden feel about the players who didn't become famous as opposed to the ones who did become famous?

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