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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Okinawa Association for Spirit of the Martial Arts advance?
(a) Tug of war.
(b) Karate-do.
(c) Jijitsu.
(d) Aikido.

2. How did Matsumura repel the owner of the engraver shop?
(a) With his eye.
(b) With a noose.
(c) With a karate chop.
(d) With a gun.

3. Okinawa had a poisonous snake named what?
(a) Itosu.
(b) Habu.
(c) Grease.
(d) Shuri.

4. What kind of eyes did Matsumura have?
(a) Cold.
(b) Friendly.
(c) Passionate.
(d) Piercing.

5. This book covers the period of the life of the author from 1868 to what?
(a) 1948.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1957.
(d) 1923.

6. Whose house did Gichin and his son go for karate practice?
(a) Habu's.
(b) Itosu's.
(c) Azato's.
(d) Yuo's.

7. In what social class was Gichin?
(a) Kata.
(b) Matzi.
(c) Yuko.
(d) Shizoku.

8. What did Matsumura want the engraver shop owner to work on for him?
(a) A pair of boots.
(b) A letter.
(c) A pipe.
(d) A gun.

9. What were Okinawa's two schools of kata?
(a) Gichin and Azato.
(b) Wutang and Shiri.
(c) Nawate and Shurite.
(d) Meiji and Azutu.

10. Gichin Funakoshi is a karate master and scholar of what kind of classics?
(a) Chinese.
(b) Korean.
(c) Japanese.
(d) Italian.

11. Who started as an assistant but quickly moved to a higher grade instructor?
(a) Gichin.
(b) Azato.
(c) Confucius.
(d) Shuri.

12. Karate was linked to what religious tradition?
(a) Taoist.
(b) Christian.
(c) Buddhist.
(d) Hindu.

13. As children, where did most Japanese students train to learn martial arts?
(a) Dojo.
(b) Training ring.
(c) Ballet class.
(d) Tea garden.

14. What did the owner of the engraver shop ask Matsumura for?
(a) A pipe.
(b) A match.
(c) A gun.
(d) A lighter.

15. What did Gichin cut off that made his father angry?
(a) Clothes.
(b) Braid.
(c) Shoes.
(d) Topknot.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Gichin participated in hand wrestling, how many bouts did he enter?

2. Conflict developed between the coastal village of Motobe and the hamlet of what?

3. Who was the Jinriksha driver Gichin met?

4. What did Gichin have to learn because of his social class?

5. Why did Gichin practice a martial art with Azato secretly?

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