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?
South Korea
China
Mongolia
Japan
2. In which century the ninja emerged as mercenaries?
15th Century
18th Century
20th Century
13th Century
3. What is the more proper name for ninja?
Daimyo
Shaolin
Samurai
Shinobi
4. What was the name of ninja leaders?
Chonin
Jonin
Ronin
Genin
5. What is a modern term for a female ninja?
Kunoichi
Geisha
Kuji-kiri
Sensei
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?
Oda Nobunaga
Daisuke Togakure
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Sho Kosugi
7. What were a ninja’s throwing stars called?
Shuriken
Kusarigama
Kama
Yumi
8. What were a ninja’s straight swords called?
Shikomizue
Ninjato
Makibishi
Katana
9. The most skilled ninja clans were from which regions?
Kanto and Chubu
Iga and Koga
Kinki and Chugoku
Hokkaido and Tohoku
10. Which famous ninja was hired by the distinguished Tokugawa family, and later helped Tokugawa Ieyasu become a ruler?
Ishikawa Goemon
Hattori Hanzo
Mochizuki Chiyome
Tateoka Doshun
11. What belt colour do male ninja wear before they achieve their black belt?
Brown
Red
White
Green
12. Why was the art of ninjutsu formed?
A new martial art was needed
For night fighting
To combat the ruling Samurai class
For the Samurai to practice on
13. What is the higher order of Ninjutsu known as?