Becoming Imperial Japan to 1895 Test Bank Answers Ch.8

Chapter 8

1. Which of these ruled Japan in the thirteenth century?

a. the Kamakura Shogunate

b. Ashikaga Takauji and his descendants

c. the Emperor Meiji

d. the Mongols

2. Which of these describe Go-Daigo’s revolt?

a. an emperor’s attempt to reassert imperial authority

b. the bakufu’s revolt against the emperor

c. a shogun’s usurpation of imperial authority

d. a daimyo uprising against the shogunate

3. It is most accurate to say that the bushido ________ the urbane side of Japanese life.

a. opposed

b. appreciated

c. had no idea of

d. actively repressed

4. Which of these led to Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s decision to invade Korea?

a. Korea’s development of the turtle ship

b. the Qing rise to power

c. arrival of European missionaries

d. subduing the daimyo

5. The goal of the sankin kotai was to ________.

a. unify Japan under imperial rule

b. weaken the daimyo

c. confirm samurai authority

d. strengthen the army

6. The place of the military classes in Japan ________ Confucian values.

a. conformed to

b. defied

c. varied from

d. was a slight modification of

7. Because of shogunate policy Japanese armaments were ________ in the 1850s.

a. on a par with industrialized nations

b. the most advanced in the world

c. totally outdated

d. below average

8. Which of these was a key component of “Dutch Learning”?

a. military technology

b. Catholicism

c. kana

d. the sciences

9. Looking at Map 8.3, in the nineteenth century Japan had an advantage in trade with ________.

a. San Francisco

b. Australia

c. the Americas’ Pacific coasts

d. island Southeast Asia

10. Perry’s mission to Japan had the intended effect of ________.

a. finding Japanese markets for American goods

b. a Japanese alliance against China

c. alarming Japan

d. the conquest of Japan

11. The move to Edo (Tokyo) marked the ________.

a. end of daimyo power

b. restoration of imperial authority

c. rise of the Tokugawa Shogunate

d. beginning of imperial Japan

12. At the time of the Meiji Restoration the regional influence of the daimyo was ________.

a. still overriding

b. secondary to loyalty to the emperor

c. gone

d. fading fast

13. The Meiji Constitution was influenced most by ________ traditions.

a. U.S.

b. Chinese

c. German

d. Buddhist

14. Around 1900 Japan’s perception of its position in relation to China was a(n) ________ its earlier traditions.

a. change in direction from

b. renewed commitment to

c. extreme form of

d. reversal of

15. Population pressure led Japanese families to limit their size from about ________.

a. 1800

b. 1700

c. 1900

d. 1600

16. Which of these best describes the Meiji approach to economic reforms?

a. hostile

b. committed to rapid change

c. cautiously dynamic

d. indifferent

17. In what area did Japanese gender roles differ most from contemporary Western models?

a. business ownership

b. political leadership

c. child rearing

d. the military

18. Meiji-era Japanese society was ________ compared to Tokugawa-era society.

a. more heavily influenced by Confucianism

b. more democratic

c. much more stratified

d. dominated by the military

19. Matsuo Basho was renowned for his ________.

a. poetry

b. ceramics

c. music

d. plays

20. The image “The ‘Floating World’” reflects this culture’s ________ values.

a. practical

b. military

c. spiritual

d. refined