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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lee claim a master boxer attacks by?

2. What does Lee say is minimized with vigorous activity in warming up by rehearsing skills and raising body temperature?

3. What type of posture does Lee say should always be maintained?

4. In Lee's view, what results from three thousand years of conditioning and propaganda?

5. What does increased tissue elasticity reduce?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Lee say body feel important to develop in kicking?

2. Lee says that a proper spiritual attitude is maintained. What might happen if a fighter does not maintain their spiritual attitude?

3. What happened in Bruce Lee's life that inspired the writing of "The Tao of Jeet Kune Do?"

4. Why do Lee and the editor devote so much detail to the on-guard position and proper posture?

5. Why does Lee instruct that a lead hook be used carefully?

6. What are some qualities of a Jeet Kune Do fighter?

7. Name one of Lee's timing exercises that a fighter can practice.

8. Do fighters in Jeet Kune Do need to be the same height and weight?

9. What does Lee see as the purpose of his book?

10. How does Lee describe the "shortened lever" principle?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Jeet Kune Do offers a path to self-knowledge. How does Jeet Kune Do help one cultivate self-knowledge? What are some other ways people can attain self-knowledge, besides studying a martial art?

Essay Topic 2

What is the difference between "being" and "doing?" Which one does Jeet Kune Do focus on? Include examples from the text.

Essay Topic 3

Lee identifies six diseases that are proposed as desires. He says they are attachments.

Part 1) Why does Lee consider attachments diseases?

Part 2) Which of the diseases he describes do you feel is most prevalent today?

Part 3) What might Lee suggest to diffuse the problem you have described?

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