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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Wooden say about his players' lives and problems?
(a) He says that they were not very big in the scheme of things.
(b) He feels that they shouldn't have talked about those things in public but should have dealt with them in private.
(c) He says he always tried to listen to them.
(d) He thinks they were crybabies.

2. What Webster's dictionary word definition does Wooden disagree with?
(a) The one for failure.
(b) The one for coaching.
(c) The one for teaching.
(d) The one for success.

3. Wooden believes every person who wants to succeed must be willing to pay what?
(a) The piper.
(b) The bills.
(c) On time.
(d) The price.

4. How does Wooden feel about his players who went on to do something else than become professional ball players?
(a) He wishes they had been able to achieve more and feels sorry for them.
(b) He thinks much less of them than he does of his other players.
(c) He thinks they didn't try as hard as his other players.
(d) He is just as proud of them as he is of his other players.

5. For Wooden, the final score is not as important as ...
(a) The last game.
(b) The way the referees call violations.
(c) The thought of the final score.
(d) The path to the final score.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does it mean when an athlete gets an endorsement offer?

2. The poems Wooden adds to "Wooden" achieve what goal?

3. Three constants throughout Wooden's life are his love for his wife, his respect/love for his father, and what?

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

5. When Wooden discusses conditioning, he says that it is all-inclusive, involving the moral, physical, and what?

(see the answer key)

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