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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A what point of a fight does Bruce Lee recommend the fighter stay loose but poised and use economical movements?
(a) Between punches.
(b) Before initiation of an attack.
(c) After receiving a blow.
(d) Before a fight begins.

2. What does Lee suggest Jeet Kune Do students should be alert to?
(a) The rigidity of dual comprehension.
(b) Time and space.
(c) Interchangeable opposites.
(d) Technical cunning.

3. What does Lee say a mind loses if it stops?
(a) Memory and facts.
(b) The potential for enlightenment.
(c) Its own fluidity.
(d) Jeet Kune Do training.

4. What does Lee say will vary according to the opponent's skill and training?
(a) Combinations.
(b) Tactics.
(c) Preparation.
(d) Body feel.

5. What does Lee claim is a denial of one's being?
(a) Selfless.
(b) Becoming.
(c) Sacrifice.
(d) Martyrdom.

6. What does Lee compare a man's movement to without obstruction?
(a) A leaf blowing in the wind.
(b) An old growth tree.
(c) A soaring bird.
(d) A flash of lightening.

7. What does Lee teach is the purpose of a feint?
(a) To increase a fighter's arsenal.
(b) To reduce an opponent's coordination.
(c) To improve muscle function.
(d) To use enough motion to deflect a blow.

8. What does Lee call the space a fighter and his opponent have in relation to each other?
(a) Two parts of a whole.
(b) Fighting measure.
(c) Personal space.
(d) Following distance.

9. Which Jeet Kune Do move drops the body forward from the waist under swings and hooks to the head?
(a) Lunging.
(b) Ducking.
(c) Sweeping.
(d) Slipping.

10. What is a balanced forward advance of the body through a series of short sliding steps forward?
(a) The forward shuffle.
(b) The side shuffle.
(c) A feint.
(d) A lunge.

11. What does Lee instruct fighters to use to coordinate closing and opening distances?
(a) Non-thinking.
(b) An estimation.
(c) Hands and feet.
(d) Arm span.

12. What does Lee say requires preliminary analysis, preparation, and execution?
(a) Reading the opponent.
(b) Selecting tactics.
(c) Preliminary analysis.
(d) Being unattached.

13. Where should the execution of the feint start from?
(a) A minimum of three feet away.
(b) The on-guard position.
(c) A side position.
(d) A body's length away from the opponent.

14. What types of fighters does Lee describe as using techniques and tactics learned by repetition without considering the reason?
(a) Beginners.
(b) Intellectual.
(c) Thoughtless.
(d) Mechanical.

15. What does Lee say is the highest priority as techniques mastered are forgotten to float in totality?
(a) Emptiness.
(b) Concentration.
(c) Discipline.
(d) Excitement.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lee describes the parry as a light and easy sudden ______ of the hand from inside or outside to deflect a blow from ______.

2. The _____ in the high line of engagement starts under the opponent's hand, and in the low line starts over the opponent's hand.

3. What attack occurs in the same line as the original action when the opponent retreats without a parry?

4. What does Lee say a long and deep feint draws the opponent into?

5. What does Lee say changes continuously with the speed, agility, and control of fighters?

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