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: Which of the following said “the simplest answer to any question is probably the correct one.”
Answer Choices:
Desiderius Erasmus
William Ockham
Martin Luther
Answer: William Ockham
Question: Claudius Galen (A.D. 130-200)
Answer Choices:
All of the above.
Was one of the first physicians to combine medicine and biomechanics to form the “science of exercise.”
Believed that professional athletes did not have much of an intellect and spend their lives over-exercising, overeating, and overindulging like pigs.
Was a Greek physician who achieved fame because he had great success treating wounded gladiators so they could continue fighting.
Answer: All of the above.
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: The “father of American football” was Walter Camp.
Answer Choices:
True
False
Answer: True
Question: Which of the following is true?: The Funeral Games of the ancient Greeks
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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: Which of the following is true?
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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
Question: Amateurism developed in the 1860s and 1870s because upper class athletes in America, like their British Counterparts refused to compete against middle class and lower class athletes.
Answer Choices:
True
False
Answer: True
Question: During the Empire, Christian writers had no interest in Roman ‘Games and Sport.’ They chose to write about other concerns and were not the least bit interested in what went on in the Colosseum or other similar venues.
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True
False
Answer: False
Question: Which of the following is not one of the main gladiatorial types?
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Hoplomachus
Thracian
Samnites
Secular
Answer: Secular
Question: The Stoic philosophy
Answer Choices:
Believed that knowledge was based on sense perceptions
All of the above
Was established by Zeno
Emphasized personal conduct and the attainment of personal happiness—no matter what life did to them, Stoics restrained grievances.
Elevated the philosophical position of the body as important
Answer: All of the above
Question: Sport in New England during the colonization of America was influenced mostly by French Catholics.
Answer Choices:
True
False
Answer: False
Question: The military draft of World War I had little or no impact upon the development of mandatory PE in the nation’s schools.
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True
False
Answer: False