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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. Who was the person that Lewis worked with most of the time when he was rowing?

2. Who was the Harvard sweep oarsman who had a tough time dealing with the mental adjustment to sculling?

3. What was Biglow's grade point average when he graduated from Yale?

4. When did Woodrow Wilson approach a philanthropist and ask for a donation for the Princeton law school?

5. Where was Dan Goldberg from?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Biglow decide to attend Yale?

2. What were some things that inspired Wood to continue rowing?

3. Why, when Wood was in his mid-twenties, would he ritually get ready to quit rowing and then stay on?

4. How did Lewis support himself?

5. What questions did Biglow ask Parker when he called him before he returned to Cambridge?

6. Why did Bouscaren grow up a single child with a single parent?

7. Why did Mitch accompany Lewis to Princeton?

8. What caused Madison Avenue to become more interested in the Olympics?

9. What was Wood like at prep school and at Harvard?

10. Why were the American teams at a disadvantage competing against the Europeans in the Olympic games?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Athletes in sports other than rowing could make money through commercial endorsements and sponsorships. Discuss why sports were big business, and why rowing did not profit from the big business aspect of sports.

Essay Topic 2

Lewis created his own training devices and used some inventive methods to improve his rowing. Discuss why he created his own training devices and what some of these inventive methods and creative training devices were that he used to improve his rowing.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the reasons why Wood and Biglow both wanted to be the single sculler in the Olympic games.

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