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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What were Gichin and his wife in Kyushu?
(a) Poets.
(b) Teachers.
(c) Refugees.
(d) Landlords.

3. Who was the Grand Champion that trained with Gichin?
(a) Isamu.
(b) Rokuro.
(c) Azato.
(d) Onishiki.

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

5. Gichin urged karate students to train with the eyes of what?
(a) Head.
(b) Soul.
(c) Deer.
(d) Tiger.

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

7. Where did Gichin live with his oldest son in 1945?
(a) Okinawa.
(b) Rukyuan.
(c) Shuri.
(d) Koishikawa.

8. Karate was known in what Islands?
(a) Ryukyu.
(b) Shuri.
(c) Kyushu.
(d) Okinawa.

9. Gichin was dismayed by popular press notions of what in karate?
(a) Northern vertigo.
(b) Weakness.
(c) Use of equipment.
(d) Superhuman feats of strength.

10. Where did Gichin postpone a visit to when Kano wanted a demonstration?
(a) Kyoto.
(b) Tokyo.
(c) Okinawa.
(d) Nua.

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

12. Who when trained in karate might be more obedient?
(a) Children.
(b) Wives.
(c) Lovers.
(d) Husbands.

13. From where did Gichin get students?
(a) Cafes and bookstores.
(b) Military academies.
(c) Pawn and drug shops.
(d) Car repair stores.

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

15. Who was the naval man that became a student of Gichin?
(a) Onishiki.
(b) Azato.
(c) Rokuro.
(d) Isamu.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gichin was moved by His Majesty's memory of a demonstration that he did many years ago at what location?

2. Gichin claimed the mastery of Karate-do required being what?

3. Gichin was on the faculty of a school near what?

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

5. Where was Gichin's sick wife?

(see the answer keys)

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