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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. At the top of Wooden's schematic are confidence and what?
(a) Routineness.
(b) Ability.
(c) Talent.
(d) Poise.

2. What does Wooden call being your best when your best is needed?
(a) Competitive opportunity.
(b) Competitive style.
(c) Competitive grace.
(d) Competitive greatness.

3. What does Wooden ensure about every player's shoes?
(a) That they are the correct size.
(b) That they look uniform to everyone else's shoes.
(c) That they have a thick sole.
(d) That they are clean at all times.

4. When Wooden discusses conditioning, he says that it is all-inclusive, involving the moral, physical, and what?
(a) Faith.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Mental.
(d) Judgmental.

5. Why does Wooden want his players to have zero creases in their socks?
(a) So they don't get blisters.
(b) So they learn to listen to him.
(c) He doesn't give an explanation.
(d) So they look uniform on the court.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Wooden say once said that he, "Learned something from everyone he met"?

2. Though Wooden doesn't like all of his players, he does feel what way about them?

3. How does Wooden handle his players when they've done something well or correctly?

4. For Wooden, success in a game is what?

5. When Wooden retired, he told his team what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Wooden describe his tactical knowledge when it comes to basketball?

2. What blocks are at the next-to-the-top location on Wooden's pyramid of success?

3. What elements make up the "mortar" of Wooden's pyramid of success? Why does he choose these elements?

4. Why doesn't Wooden believe that a leader should motivate with fear of discipline?

5. When does Wooden say he knew it was time to retire from coaching at UCLA?

6. When it comes to winning championships, what two things does Wooden keep in mind?

7. Despite the fact that Wooden doesn't like all his players, how does he treat them?

8. How do Wooden's beliefs regarding morality affect the way he's put his pyramid of success together?

9. Wooden uses Abraham Lincoln to illustrate which of the four blocks that are at the second level of his pyramid of success? Why?

10. Aside from the center block on Wooden's pyramid of success, what other blocks are in the middle row?

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