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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. Where did Biglow go after the finals?

2. When had Christopher Wood been a spare on an Olympic team, before 1984?

3. How long would each oarsman row when on the ergometer?

4. What did Wood do after losing the final?

5. How many strokes did Wood take in the final and realize that he was rowing the wrong race?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why had Lewis's home life not been an easy one?

2. What adjustments did Altekruse have to make when he went from being an oarsman to a sculler?

3. Why did both Biglow and Wood want to be the single sculler in the 1984 Olympic games?

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

5. Why did a sculler have to find motivation within himself?

6. Why did Biglow decide to attend Yale?

7. Why would it have been difficult for the Dallas Cowboys to draft Carl Lewis as a possible wide receiver?

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

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

10. In what way were the rowing athletes treated differently from other Olympic hopefuls?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Compare and contrast how Wood and Bouscaren dealt with their disappointment when they did not make the Olympic rowing team.

Essay Topic 3

Other oarsmen called Paul Enquist Paul "Zenquist". Discuss why Enquist was nicknamed Paul "Zenquist".

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