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Age of Ninjas

What do you know about the specialized assassins, saboteurs, and secret agents who were highly-trained proponents of the martial arts, especially what later became known as ninjutsu or 'the art of the ninja'?
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1. Ninjas were covert agents or mercenaries in which feudal country?
China
Japan
Mongolia
South Korea
2. In which century the ninja emerged as mercenaries?
15th Century
20th Century
18th Century
13th Century
3. What is the more proper name for ninja?
Shaolin
Samurai
Daimyo
Shinobi
4. What was the name of ninja leaders?
Jonin
Genin
Ronin
Chonin
5. What is a modern term for a female ninja?
Geisha
Kuji-kiri
Sensei
Kunoichi
6. Which former samurai who was on the losing side in a regional battle met Kain Doshi, a Chinese warrior-monk, and together the two developed a new theory of guerrilla warfare called ninjutsu?
Daisuke Togakure
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Sho Kosugi
Oda Nobunaga
7. What were a ninja’s throwing stars called?
Kama
Yumi
Kusarigama
Shuriken
8. What were a ninja’s straight swords called?
Shikomizue
Ninjato
Katana
Makibishi
9. The most skilled ninja clans were from which regions?
Kinki and Chugoku
Iga and Koga
Kanto and Chubu
Hokkaido and Tohoku
10. Which famous ninja was hired by the distinguished Tokugawa family, and later helped Tokugawa Ieyasu become a ruler?
Mochizuki Chiyome
Hattori Hanzo
Tateoka Doshun
Ishikawa Goemon
11. What belt colour do male ninja wear before they achieve their black belt?
Green
White
Red
Brown
12. Why was the art of ninjutsu formed?
For night fighting
To combat the ruling Samurai class
A new martial art was needed
For the Samurai to practice on
13. What is the higher order of Ninjutsu known as?
Tekko-kagi
Ninpo
Ashiko
Hashashin
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