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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Itosu showed the meaning of karate by avoiding what with the untrained men?
(a) Sharing.
(b) Words.
(c) Eating.
(d) Conflict.

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

3. What did thieves take from Gichin's house?
(a) Money.
(b) Cakes.
(c) Snakes.
(d) Karate clothes.

4. Who did Gichin meet in school that was the son of a famous karate expert?
(a) Shizoku Yamagachi.
(b) Kata Funakoshi.
(c) Koshiro Suzuki.
(d) Yasutsune Azato.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Gichin also train with in addition to Azato?

2. Gichin went with Master Itosu on what kind of viewing party?

3. At Gichin's school, the commissioner watched what kind of demonstration?

4. In what district was Shuri located?

5. When in 19th century Japan did an applicant to medical school have to be born to be eligible?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did karate spread in Japan?

2. How was Gichin described in the first section of the book?

3. What did Matsumura and the engraver want from each other?

4. How was the son of Azato that Gichin met described in the first section of the book?

5. How did Gichin move up in his teaching practice?

6. How did Gichin practice the spirit of karate when thieves visited his home?

7. How did the habu Gichin encountered understand the spirit of karate?

8. How did Matsumura defeat the engraver?

9. What was the premise and history of Karate-do: My Way of Life?

10. How was Gichin described as a child?

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