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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. As children, where did most Japanese students train to learn martial arts?

2. Who praised Gichin for understanding the true spirit of karate?

3. Nukite is a kind of what?

4. Who started the Okinawa Association for Spirit of the Martial Arts?

5. Why did Gichin sway a lantern to and fro as he is walking on the road with his son?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Gichin rescue the man running from the police initially?

3. Why did Gichin admire Azato and Itosu?

4. How did Gichin interpret what karate means?

5. How did Matsumura defeat the engraver?

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

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

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

9. What was a myth about karate practitioners?

10. Describe the habu mentioned in Training for Life.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain Gichin's use of humor in the book. Cite examples of at least two different instances of humor and explain why the author used them where he did.

Essay Topic 2

Freedom was a recurring theme in Karate-Do. Who was free? Who lacked freedom? What constricted freedom? How did Gichin gain or lose freedom? Which authorities controlled access to freedom and in what ways? Did Gichin need a purpose in life to be free?

Essay Topic 3

Gichin's wife practiced Buddhism in a traditional way. How was her practice of religion different from that of Gichin? What traditions did Gichin's wife follow? Did they seem rigid to you?

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