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Reading Questions

Choose the best answer.

1. Friedrich Jahn began the first gymnastic school in
a. Berlin
b. Hong Kong

c. Vienna
d. Paris

2. People of the modern world started doing gymnastics in

a. the early 1700’s
b. the mid 1900’s
c. the late 1700’s

d. the late 1800’s

3. What happened soon after the ancient Greeks began doing
gymnastics?

a. The exercise was brought to the United States to cure patients who were
physically ill.
b. Japanese athletes visited Greece to learn the new exercise.
c. It became part of their athletic contests.
d. Police officers started using gymnastics in their training sessions.

4. How are sit-ups and vaulting different?
a. Vaulting is part of gymnastics but sit-ups are not.
b. Sit-ups are part of gymnastics but vaulting is not.

c. Sit-ups are part of calisthenics, but vaulting is heavy gymnastics.
d. Vaulting is part of calisthenics, but sit-ups are heaving gymnastics.

5. What type of gymnastics would you be most likely to practice for

correcting body defects?
a. heavy gymnastics
b. Swedish gymnastics

c. calisthenics
d. German gymnastics

6. In the passage, the word limberness means

a. flexibility
b. resistance
c. necessity
d. sophistication

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