Question: California passed a law in 1866 that required mandatory PE and health instruction. Ohio passed a law by 1892 requiring that physical culture be taught in the state’s larger schools. The German Turners pushed hard for this law.
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True
False
Answer: True
Question: By the turn of the century
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Football was the most popular sport on college campuses.
Professional football was a reality.
Basketball and volleyball were being played.
Basketball was popular among women’s colleges.
Answer: All of the above
Question: Which of the following is NOT true about President Theodore Roosevelt
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Called a meeting of leading football coaches to reform the game; he supported intercollegiate football competition because it was “manly.”
However, he was very concerned about the incidence of injury and death in football; his son was injured playing the game.
Was so opposed to intercollegiate football that he tried to eliminate it from being played.
Answer: Was so opposed to intercollegiate football that he tried to eliminate it from being played.
Question: The growth of Christianity had no impact, whatsoever on Roman sport.
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True
False
Answer: False
Question: Which of the following is true?
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The model for sport as we know it was firmly in place by the late 1800s.
The demographic, technological, and philosophical changes that occurred in 19th century America were reflected in the way Americans behaved and thought about sport and play.
Sport and recreational activities helped to accommodate urban lifestyles and mitigate against the unhealthy effects of living in the city.
Technological advances and innovations were used in the world of sports as much as in any other cultural arena.
Answer: All of the above
Question: The first horse races were a quarter mile long and were often held in the streets.
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True
False
Answer: True
Question: Humanists
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Believed in a philosophy that liked to focus on humans as opposed to the “other worldly” or heavenly concerns of earlier philosophies.
Developed the concept of Humanism.
Saw value in the way the ancient Greeks viewed the body; the Greeks believed that the human body played as important a role as the soul’s work—everyday life.
All of the above.
Answer: All of the above.
Question: The growth of Christianity had no impact whatsoever on Roman sport.
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True
False
Answer: False
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: Puritan ideas toward work and play
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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: Baseball
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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: The “work ethic” means
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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: The Greeks were very receptive to the introduction of Roman sports.
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True
False
Answer: False
Question: Between 1900 and 1930 physical educators debated about appropriate methods and goals relative to research and teaching. What factors caused this debate?
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Changing demographics in schools.
Broad social changes that were occurring in America.
Changing beliefs and trends in science.
All of the above.
Answer: All of the above
Question: Stoic Philosophy
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None of the above
Was grounded in a sense of individualism
All of the above
Was criticized by the Roman Seneca because it ignored the teaching of personal conduct.
Did not appeal to Romans.
Answer: Was grounded in a sense of individualism
Question: The Panhellenic Games consisted of the:
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Nemean Games
Isthmian Games
Olympic Games
Pythian Games
All of the above
Answer: All of the above
Question: Women physical educators supported the Amateur Athletic Union’s (AAU) decision to send an African American team to the 1922 Women’s Olympic Games in Paris.
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True
False
Answer: False
Question: During the antebellum era, and afterwards as well, social position and social class often dictated which sports you could and could not do.
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True
False
Answer: True
Question: Which of the following is true?
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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: The Renaissance Man was thought to be
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A specialist
Well rounded
Only interested in one thing
None of these are correct
Answer: Well rounded
Question: The origins of Etruscan civilization
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Are not linked in any tangible way to Italy
May have its origins in the Northern Alps because Etruscan inscriptions have been discovered
Are documented by the Greek historian Herodotus
May have its genesis in Asia Minor
Answer: Are documented by the Greek historian Herodotus
Question: The first collegiate football game was played on November 6, 1869 between Rutgers and Princeton.
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True
False
Answer: True
Question: Although gladiators who displayed courage, bravery, and fought well were admired by many Romans for their skills, these same Romans cared very little about the “future” of these trained killers since the fate of the gladiator was to provide the masses with entertainment and die in the arena.
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True
False
Answer: True
Question: The Renaissance and Reformation has a significant impact on how the church viewed the body.
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True
False
Answer: True