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

2. What did an opponent allow a karate student to do?
(a) Spar.
(b) Gain.
(c) Lose.
(d) Collaborate.

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

4. Who encouraged Gichin to write a reference book on Karate-do?
(a) Onishiki.
(b) Yashiro.
(c) Isamu.
(d) Kosugi.

5. On the way to the last train to Tokyo after a party, who did Gichin encounter?
(a) A woman in red.
(b) A man in black.
(c) A child in blue.
(d) A ghost in white.

Short Answer Questions

1. What could trainees develop from karate?

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

3. What did children in the garden call Gichin for his smooth, ruddy-skinned complexion?

4. What earthquake struck on September 1, 1923?

5. What did Gichin sleep on?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did many women like karate according to Gichin?

3. Describe Gichin's concern for his former students as the war with China began.

4. What did Gichin learn from his students?

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

6. What did mastery of karate-do require according to Gichin?

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

8. Why did Gichin's wife not live with him?

9. How did Gichin approach karate training?

10. Why did the children call Gichin "snake gourd?"

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