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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. What did Gichin show containing photographs of karate stances, kata, and movements?
(a) Pictures.
(b) Notes.
(c) Cameras.
(d) Scrolls.

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

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

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

5. What Judo master asked Gichin to teach him some basic kata?
(a) Jigoro Kano.
(b) Master Azato.
(c) Shinkin Gima.
(d) Meisei Juku.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did karate training require as a student progressed levels?

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

4. Gichin urged karate students to train with the eyes of what?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did karate stand out according to Gichin?

3. How did Gichin approach karate training?

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

5. Why was Gichin ashamed of how he reacted to the thief?

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

7. Why did Gichin warn against arrogance in training?

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

9. Why did Gichin name his dojo Shoto?

10. How did Gichin explain that a karate blow can be fatal years later by comparing the body to boards?

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