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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3: The Parts That Really Matter, Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from Part 1: What Seasons They Have Been Through, Chapter 3 refers to an even balance or distribution of weight?
(a) Posterior.
(b) Ellipses.
(c) Elocution.
(d) Equipoise.

2. In what country was George Pocock born?
(a) Great Britain.
(b) The Republic of Ireland.
(c) The United States.
(d) Belgium.

3. How hold was Joe Rantz when his father and Thula abandoned him in Sequim, Washington?
(a) 12.
(b) 10.
(c) 15.
(d) 17.

4. Who was the freshman rowing coach at the University of Washington in 1933?
(a) George A. Wyman.
(b) Byron Noble.
(c) Tom Bolles.
(d) Al Ulbrickson.

5. What was novel about the manner in which Joe Rantz's parents married?
(a) They were married on a mountaintop.
(b) They were married over the internet.
(c) They were married in an airplane.
(d) They were married over the telephone.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the first person to cross the United States by motor vehicle, traveling by motorcycle from San Francisco to New York?

2. What college fraternity key did Al Ulbrickson frequently twirl as he talked to the crews at the University of Washington?

3. What was the name of Joseph Goebbels' wife?

4. What was the name of the shell that the freshman crew raced in Poughkeepsie in 1934?

5. What was the name of the family that Joe's father took Joe to live with near the Hama Hama Logging Company in 1924?

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