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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Matsumura learn was the only obstacle to life?

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

3. Why did Gichin violate the spirit of karate-do after his hand wrestling bouts?

4. Gichin received a promotion to principal of an outlying school but chose to do what?

5. Who were two admirals that supported martial arts in 1921?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Itosu teach his students the meaning of karate?

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

3. How were Gichin's karate teachers described in the first section of the book?

4. Describe the habu mentioned in Training for Life.

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

6. Describe the kata called "nukite" that Gichin mentioned in the first section of the book.

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

8. What did Matsumura learn about life after his experience at the engraver shop?

9. What was one reason that Gichin skipped medical school?

10. Describe what Gichin learned about hand wrestling and karate-do.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The author used more than one instance of irony in Karate-Do. Cite at least two examples you can identify in the book and note why they were examples of irony.

Essay Topic 2

Describe Sueyoshi. What was his role in Karate-Do? What was Gichin trying to accomplish by describing Sueyoshi?

Essay Topic 3

Gichin and Azato were two of the most active individuals in the book in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the spread of karate through Okinawa and modern Japan.

Part 1) What was their relationship? How did they co-exist and how did they interact? What was similar about them and what was different?

Part 2) What were some events that Gichin had a direct influence upon? What were some events that Azato had a direct influence upon?

Part 3) Which individual offered support to the group? Which one was stronger and why?

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