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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 Gichin sleep on?

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

3. Gichin was dismayed by popular press notions of what in karate?

4. What did popular wrestlers use that could kill a man instantly?

5. Who was the Grand Champion that trained with Gichin?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What did Gichin learn from his students?

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

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

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

7. How did Gichin approach karate training?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

How did Matsumura illustrate the lesson of vanity? Describe in relation to his reaction to the attack launched by the engraver.

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