Question: Sport, generally defined, consists of which of the following characteristics?
Answer Choices:
A Continuity, division of roles, dynamic interaction with an audience, a supporting establishment.
A One-time decision to practice; coaching specialization; significant fan support.
Scheduled competition, large venues to hold competitions, significant financial resources, media coverage, achievement recognition, formal league playoff arrangements.
None of these are correct.
Answer: A Continuity, division of roles, dynamic interaction with an audience, a supporting establishment.
Question: History, as defined in the text, can best be described as the study of
Answer Choices:
People that lived in the past
Change, or the absence of change over time
Descriptions of historic events
Events that happened in the past
Answer: Change, or the absence of change over time
Question: The “work ethic” means
Answer Choices:
To live hard, die young, and leave a good-looking corpse.
Time is money, idle hands are the devil’s workshop, and idle brains must not be enforced.
To be seen working hard is a sign of one’s inner moral goodness.
Morality is a function of your wealth rather than how much one goes to church.
Answer: To be seen working hard is a sign of one’s inner moral goodness.
Question: Which of the following is true?: The Funeral Games of the ancient Greeks
Answer Choices:
Were held to punish enemies, such as Patroclus who was killed at Troy.
Were to the Greeks, not other culture held funeral games.
Consisted of athletic contests which honored the deceased and were believed to give pleasure to the gods.
Answer: Consisted of athletic contests which honored the deceased and were believed to give pleasure to the gods.
Question: During the antebellum era, and afterwards as well, social position and social class often dictated which sports you could and could not do.
Answer Choices:
True
False
Answer: True
Question: Which of the following is true?
Answer Choices:
All of these are correct.
Both McCloy and Williams believed that our physical dimension is a significant part of our existence and should be a high priority in the educational curriculum.
Jesse F. Williams believed that men and women are of an organic unity and opposed dualism.
Charles H. McCloy believed that the development of the body, “education of the physical,” should be the priority of Physical Education.
Answer: All of these are correct.
Question: Which of the following is true?
Answer Choices:
Plato believed in democratic ideals.
The Greeks wore neither grass nor leather items with secutant bones; in order to gain favor with their gods, Greeks developed their bodies to look like the gods, thus honoring the gods.
Classical scholars, such as William Fleming, connect the philosophy of existentialism with the ancient Greeks.
Plato’s philosophy is strongly tied to humanism because Plato’s emphasis is that developing the body is always more important than developing the mind.
Answer: The Greeks wore neither grass nor leather items with secutant bones; in order to gain favor with their gods, Greeks developed their bodies to look like the gods, thus honoring the gods.
Question: Puritan ideas toward work and play
Answer Choices:
Were strongly influenced by the rise of the merchant class and the industrial revolution.
Were literal translations from passages in the Bible.
Existed only in the United States and not in England.
Controlled the thoughts and actions only of the upper classes in both England and the United States.
Answer: Were strongly influenced by the rise of the merchant class and the industrial revolution.
Question: Discuss whether or not Charles McCloy would have advocated for the Spartan or the Athenian model for physical education and why he would have aligned himself with the Athenian or Spartan model for physical education.
Answer: Charles McCloy would advocating for the Spartan Model of Physical Education because physical dimension is a significant aspect of our existence. Sparta was like McCloy’s view by education of the physical, because if you had a bad body you were looked up to as a educated individual.
Question: Native Americans
Answer Choices:
Played the game of lacrosse.
Became expert riders thanks to the introduction of horses to North America by the Spanish.
Enjoyed tribal dancing.
All of the above.
Answer: All of the above.
Question: Horse racing
Answer: Was a popular sport during the 19th century.
Question: The first horse races were a quarter mile long and were often held in the streets.
Answer Choices:
True
False
Answer: True
Question: Baseball
Answer Choices:
Was played as “rounders” or “town ball” as early as 1834 at Harvard.
Was very popular in the New York area by 1860.
The Cincinnati Red Stockings were among the first baseball teams in America.
All of the above.
Answer: All of the above
Question: _____ evaluates the evidence and attempts to explain the how and why of events that happened in the past. The author’s perspectives and opinions are used to explain what happened in the past.
Answer Choices:
Objective History
Interpretive History
Personal History
Chronological History
Answer: Interpretive History
Question: Sport in the South during the 17th century was no different than anywhere else in America.
Answer Choices:
True
False
Answer: False
Question: The Puritans
Answer Choices:
Believed that men and women possessed a natural desire for participation in play and recreation.
Believed that play and games could be the workshop of the devil.
Developed two opposing views relative to the place of recreation: one saw recreation as beneficial, the other argument did not support recreation because of religious and economic reasons.
All of the above.
Answer: All of the above.
Question: Gambling, especially on sporting events, reflected the core element of 17th and 18th century gentry values.
Answer Choices:
True
False
Answer: True
Question: Existentialism and phenomenology are philosophies that value
Answer Choices:
Subjectivity, corporeal nature of existence and mind
Objectivity and mind
Experience and nature
The nature of experience
Answer: Subjectivity, corporeal nature of existence and mind
Question: Sport in New England during the colonization of America was influenced mostly by French Catholics.
Answer Choices:
True
False
Answer: False
Question: The “father of American football” was Walter Camp.
Answer Choices:
True
False
Answer: True
Question: Which of the following is true?
Answer Choices:
Major Taylor faced racism and feared for his life on more than one occasion.
In 1896 Major Taylor raced in Indianapolis where he “unofficially” breaks two world records. He was then banned from the Capital City track where he broke two world records.
By the end of 1898, Major Taylor held 7 world records and in 1899, won the World Cycling Championship in Montreal, Canada.
Over time, a series of bad decisions and failed marriage leaves Major Taylor broke. He writes his self-published autobiography: “The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World” in 1928. He dies in 1932 in the Charity Ward of the Cook County Hospital in Chicago and was buried in an unmarked grave.
Answer: All of the above