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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. What two elements does Wooden say are the "mortar" keeping his physical representation of success together?
(a) Patience and faith.
(b) Faith and charity.
(c) Hope and faith.
(d) Faith and talent.

2. What does Wooden believe is necessary to properly prepare for any task?
(a) Understanding.
(b) Money.
(c) Patience.
(d) A good role model.

3. For Wooden, success in a game is what?
(a) Practically impossible to achieve.
(b) A money-making opportunity for a team and coach.
(c) Not the final score.
(d) The only goal.

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

5. How often does Wooden believe people can do their best?
(a) More often than not.
(b) Very rarely.
(c) Once in a while.
(d) Every time.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Wooden try to do with his players' internal prides?

2. Wooden describes knowing and being comfortable with yourself as what?

3. What is a UCLA player's first priority (according to Wooden)?

4. Wooden teaches his players but he also does what?

5. At the top of Wooden's schematic are confidence and what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Wooden say about coaches that win through violence and anger?

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

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

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

5. What are three ways that Wooden makes sure his players are ready for "physiological warfare"?

6. Why does Wooden place a high importance on being a coach/teacher in terms of the coach-player relationship?

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

8. What are the three priorities (in order of importance) Wooden feels every UCLA player should keep in mind?

9. How does Wooden end "Wooden"?

10. What are the four blocks that are at the second level of Wooden's pyramid of success?

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