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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Gichin urged students to practice what in public and private daily life?
(a) Fighting.
(b) Ethics.
(c) Speaking.
(d) Kindness.

2. Who told the public bathhouse tale that Gichin repeated?
(a) Kyushu.
(b) Azato.
(c) Ituso.
(d) Seiji.

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

4. What is the Japanese word for knapsack?
(a) Kata.
(b) Yugoshi.
(c) Furoshiki.
(d) Druta.

5. Gichin's book was published in what year?
(a) 1934.
(b) 1967.
(c) 1922.
(d) 1945.

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

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

8. What could trainees develop from karate?
(a) Real height.
(b) Real muscles.
(c) Real courage.
(d) Real speed.

9. What did Gichin like to do in the afternoon that he did as a child?
(a) Play.
(b) Calligraphy.
(c) Draw.
(d) Sleep.

10. What did karate training require as a student progressed levels?
(a) Boards.
(b) An opponent.
(c) Ropes.
(d) Weapons.

11. What did Gichin compare a man's body to?
(a) A stack of boards.
(b) A strong gale.
(c) A temple.
(d) A pulsing wave.

12. What was Gichin's wife sick from?
(a) Stomach infection.
(b) Gall bladder.
(c) Heart disease.
(d) Chronic asthma.

13. In 1921, who held a demonstration of ancient Japanese martial arts?
(a) Ministry of Education.
(b) Ministry of Trade.
(c) Ministry of International Affairs.
(d) Ministry of Health.

14. Where did an earthquake strike on September 1, 1923?
(a) Tokyo.
(b) Kyoto.
(c) Marato.
(d) Okinawa.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Despite fears of war, where did Japan remain peaceful?

2. What was exercised in karate that could improve marital relations?

3. Gichin took his wife's ashes by train to where?

4. What did popular wrestlers use that could kill a man instantly?

5. Who encouraged Gichin to write a reference book on Karate-do?

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