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The Boys in the Boat - Part 3

Total questions: 37

Worksheet time: 19mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

On what date did Al Ulbrickson announce his intention to take crews from the University of Washington to the 1936 Olympic Games?

a)

January 14, 1935

b)

December 14, 1933

c)

October 9, 1935

d)

June 24, 1934

2.

In Part 3, who were the brothers that were in the all-sophomore boat and the JV boat and sustained a sibling rivalry?

a)

Roger and Andrew Morris

b)

Sid and George Lund

c)

Jim and Paul Hunt

d)

Ky and James Ebright

3.

In their sophomore year, Joe Rantz's crew changed their rowing chant from MIB to what?

a)

LGB

b)

BRB

c)

MAC

d)

LOC

4.

What University of Washington crew member's father had been the manager of Bon Marche department store and was famous for hiring spies to infiltrate the unions?

a)

Angus Hay Jr's father

b)

Byron Noble's father

c)

Frank G. Gorrie's father

d)

Broussais Beck Jr's father

5.

In Part 3, who is described as "the savvy little coxswain of what seemed to be shaping up to be the best of the JV boats"

a)

Harvey Love

b)

Bobby Moch

c)

George Hunt

d)

Charlie McDonald

6.

In Part 3, who were the sophomore crew members that Ulbrickson called into his office and told they needed to shape up?

a)

Joe, Bobby, George and Russell

b)

Mike, Byron, George, Joe, and Willis

c)

Frank, Bobby, Ky, Harry, and Jerry

d)

George, Chuck, Roger, Shorty, and Joe

7.

What word from Part 3 means noisy or clamorous?

a)

Vociferous

b)

Sedentary

c)

Atavistic

d)

Misanthropic

8.

What was the nickname that Jim McMillan's crewmates called him?

a)

Hungry Jack

b)

Stub

c)

Shorty

d)

Jimmy Rogers

9.

In Part 3 - What was the name of the business where Joe visited his father at work?

a)

Golden Rule Dairy and Bakery

b)

Clyde's Deli and Bakery

c)

The White Horse Tavern

d)

Northern Pacific Railroad

10.

What was the name of the University of Washington's football team before they became the Huskies?

a)

Gold Miners

b)

Brewskies

c)

Sea Dolphins

d)

Sun Dodgers

11.

In what year did Seattle's professional hockey team, the Metropolitans, become the first American team to win the Stanley Cup?

a)

1917

b)

1936

c)

1900

d)

1935

12.

By what name did the dust storm that hit on April 14, 1935 become known?

a)

Black Monday

b)

Black Friday

c)

Black Sunday

d)

Black Thursday

13.

Who was the Kansas City AP bureau chief that first coined the phrase "the dust bowl"?

a)

Byron Noble

b)

Frank Gorrie

c)

Harvey Love

d)

Ed Stanley

14.

Who was the president of both the AAU and the American Olympic Committee in 1935?

a)

Charlie McDonald

b)

Ed Stanley

c)

Avery Brundage

d)

Byron Noble

15.

What word from Part 3 refers to a statement that seems self-contradictory or absurd?

a)

Paradox

b)

Allusion

c)

Ambiguity

d)

Vagary

16.

In Part 3, according to the author, what sports writer for the Seattle Post Intelligencer had been "loudly backing the cause of the sophomores for months" before the regatta in Poughkeepsie in 1935?

a)

Charlie McDonald

b)

Ed Stanley

c)

Avery Brundage

d)

Royal Brougham

17.

How old was Jim Ten Eyck, the coach from Syracuse in 1935 when Washington went to race in Poughkeepsie?

a)

39

b)

55

c)

83

d)

76

18.

Who was the senior that Ulbrickson swapped out for George Morry as coxswain on the sophomore boat at Poughkeepsie in 1935?

a)

George Hunt

b)

Ed Stanley

c)

Wink Winslow

d)

Russell Callow

19.

Of the Grand Coulee Dam, the narrator says it was "so massive that by the time it was finished it would be the largest masonry structure built since...

a)

The Great Pyramid at Giza

b)

The Empire State Building

c)

The Sears Tower

d)

The Great Wall of China

20.

How much did Joe Rantz earn for the dangerous job of jack hammering on the side of cliff faces at the Grand Coulee Dam site in 1935?

a)

25 cents an hour

b)

50 cents an hour

c)

75 cents an hour

d)

2 dollars an hour

21.

Where did Al Ulbrickson agree to meet Cal, Pennsylvania, Syracuse, Wisconsin, and UCLA for a one-off 2000 meter varsity match up after Poughkeepsie in 1935?

a)

Long Beach, California

b)

Green Bay, Wisconsin

c)

Princeton, New Jersey

d)

Cleveland, Ohio

22.

How many men worked in the kitchen for the cafeteria of the Grand Coulee Dam site when Joe Rantz worked there?

a)

20

b)

5

c)

30

d)

10

23.

Where is the Grand Coulee Dam located?

a)

Columbia River, Washington

b)

Colorado River, Nevada

c)

Stanislaus River, California

d)

Bighorn River, Montana

24.

What was the area called where Joe Rantz rented a cheap room while working at the Grand Coulee Dam site?

a)

Hooverville

b)

Dinghy Pond

c)

Shack Town

d)

Jackson Square

25.

What business had Johnny White's father run until the financial crash of 1929?

a)

A Las Vegas Casino

b)

A logging company

c)

A bakery

d)

A scrap steel export business

26.

What was the name of Johnny White's mother?

a)

Doris White

b)

Maimie White

c)

Elizabeth White

d)

Dorothy White

27.

In Part 3, what word is used to describe Chuck Day that means combative or inclined to quarrel?

a)

Epistolary

b)

Derivative

c)

Scullery

d)

Pugnacious

28.

What was Chuck Day's father's profession?

a)

He was a butcher

b)

He was a dentist

c)

He was a professor

d)

She was a ship builder

29.

Where did Joe Rantz finally see his father for the first time in Seattle?

a)

The Rantz family home on Bageley Street

b)

The LaFollette home on Aurora Avenue

c)

In front of the Golden Rule Dairy and Bakery

d)

The annual race regatta between Washington and Cal

e)

At the Seattle train station, before boarding the Empire Builder

30.

In what year did the Nazi Party come into power in Germany?

a)

1918

b)

1924

c)

1929

d)

1933

e)

1935

31.

The Reich Citizenship Law defined citizens to be any German national "of German or related blood who proves by his conduct that he is willing and fit to faithfully serve he German people and Reich"

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

32.

The US Ambassador Charles H Sherrill attended the 1935 Nuremberg Rally as Hitler's personal guest

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

33.

Avery Brundage, president of the AAU, supported the movement to boycott the 1936 Olympic Games

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

34.

What was the meaning of Bobby Moch's call BAB to the crew members in the varsity boat?

a)

Bring it All Back

b)

Boys And Boats

c)

Beat Al's Babies

d)

Better and Beyond

35.

What was the inscription on the bell housed in the limestone bell tower on the Maifield next to the Olympic Stadium in Berlin

a)

Here is the field of champions

b)

I summon the youth of the world

c)

Victory is ours on this field

d)

Heil, Hitler

36.

During George Pocock's discussion with Joe Rantz about boat building, what did George Pocock say were lessons that wood could teach an individual?

a)

Survival

b)

Overcoming adversity

c)

Strength and Resilience

d)

The ability to yield

e)

All of these

37.

What event put a stop the the planned American boycott of the 1936 Olympic games

a)

American protests that the games must go on

b)

The attack of the Japanese at Pearl Harbor

c)

The insistence by President Roosevelt that Americans must compete

d)

The AAU failed to send a committee to investigate claims of Jewish persecution by the Nazis

e)

The United Nations threatened any country who did not participate in the event would be sanctioned