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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did karate teach women?
(a) Argumentation.
(b) Aggression.
(c) Self-defense.
(d) Violence.

2. How many weapons did Gichin identify from the wrist down?
(a) 10.
(b) 20.
(c) 35.
(d) 15.

3. Who began to join the karate dojo when Gichin was 80?
(a) Women.
(b) Lawyers.
(c) Ministers.
(d) Children.

4. What offered a karate group of faculty and students that Gichin visited regularly to give instruction?
(a) The university.
(b) The ministry.
(c) The academy.
(d) The dojo.

5. What was exercised in karate that could improve marital relations?
(a) Grace.
(b) Speed.
(c) Silence.
(d) Courtesy.

6. What did Gichin grab of the thief that made him yell?
(a) Foot.
(b) Leg.
(c) Arm.
(d) Testicle.

7. What religion did Gichin's wife follow?
(a) A Writer.
(b) A Priestess.
(c) A Singer.
(d) A Buddhist.

8. Gichin was on the faculty of a school near what?
(a) Shaka.
(b) Jinriksha.
(c) Senno.
(d) Naha.

9. What did popular wrestlers use that could kill a man instantly?
(a) Shuto.
(b) Karate chop.
(c) Speech.
(d) Tug of war.

10. Who was the Russian war hero that supported Funakoshi?
(a) Admiral Azato Meisei.
(b) Admiral Gichin Onishiki.
(c) Admiral Rokuro Yashiro.
(d) Admiral Isamu Takeshita.

11. Where was Gichin's sick wife?
(a) Koishikawa.
(b) Kyushu.
(c) Okinawa.
(d) Rukyuan.

12. What made kata similar to dance?
(a) Shape.
(b) Speed.
(c) Grace.
(d) Smoothness.

13. What did Gichin sleep on?
(a) A big bed and box spring.
(b) A floating waterbed.
(c) A long table.
(d) A thin mat with a quilt.

14. What did Gichin say that trainees used karate for?
(a) To calm the mind.
(b) To see weakness.
(c) To build strength.
(d) To fight enemies.

15. What did Gichin warn against becoming when learning kata?
(a) Angry.
(b) Lazy.
(c) Fat.
(d) Conceited.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Gichin's favorite food?

2. Serious Karate-do pupils were _____________ to maintain interest and training over the long term.

3. What rule number was missing from karate-do?

4. What is the Japanese word for knapsack?

5. Karate was known in what Islands?

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