Please reread the passage and help me answer the questions.
1. What details does the author include about Jesse Owens’s performance at the 1936 Olympics?
2. What does the author’s description of Owens’s response to discrimination in America tell you about the author’s view of Owens’s character?
3. What is the author’s point of view about Jesse Owens?
4. What do you think is more impressive about Jesse Owens, his athletic ability or the way he responded to discrimination from the Nazis and in the United States? Explain.