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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. How many rules were essential to understanding Karate-do?
(a) 3.
(b) 6.
(c) 5.
(d) 2.

2. Who was a first-rate karateka?
(a) Meisei Juku.
(b) Shinkin Gima.
(c) Master Azato.
(d) Gichin Funakoshi.

3. Despite fears of war, where did Japan remain peaceful?
(a) Manchuria and Mongolia.
(b) Kyoto and Suri.
(c) Okinawa and Kyushu.
(d) Shuri and Nua.

4. Gichin took his wife's ashes by train to where?
(a) Okinawa.
(b) Lisbon.
(c) London.
(d) Tokyo.

5. What earthquake struck on September 1, 1923?
(a) Shoto-kan.
(b) Grand Kanto.
(c) Hiromichi.
(d) Onishiki.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Gichin like to do in the afternoon that he did as a child?

2. What offered a karate group of faculty and students that Gichin visited regularly to give instruction?

3. What did Gichin show containing photographs of karate stances, kata, and movements?

4. What did Gichin grab of the thief that made him yell?

5. In 1945, Gichin's dojo was destroyed by what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Gichin approach karate training?

2. How did Gichin plan to impress viewers at the demonstration in Tokyo?

3. What did Gichin teach his students about karate that kept them from forming illegal gangs?

4. Why was Gichin so healthy?

5. Why did Gichin name his dojo Shoto?

6. What was the public bathhouse tale told by Seiji?

7. How did karate stand out according to Gichin?

8. What were some benefits for women from taking karate according to Gichin?

9. Describe the altercation Gichin had with the thief in the rain.

10. What did Gichin realize about his wife as she died?

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