Exam Questions Ch.11 A House Divided Korea to the Present

Chapter 11

1. Japanese and Korean assessments of the last century’s interactions are ________.

a. roughly similar

b. diametrically opposed

c. almost identical

d. divergent

2. The period of “Harmony between Japan and Korea” was ________ period of Japanese occupation relative to the “Cultural Policy.”

a. the harshest

b. a beneficial

c. the most militaristic

d. a less aggressive

3. Korean demonstrations of national pride in the 1936 Olympics led to ________.

a. Japanese retaliation

b. the end of the Japanese occupation

c. the gradual relaxation of Japanese oppression

d. the emergence of the Republic of Korea

4. Which of these was a feature of the harshest period of Japanese rule in the 1940s?

a. chaebols

b. juche

c. “comfort women”

d. “Harmony between Japan and Korea”

5. The decision to divide Korea along the 38th Parallel was made ________.

a. at the Versailles peace negotiations

b. under Soviet pressure

c. by Mao Zedong

d. by the Republic of Korea (ROK) and by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK).

6. The first leader of the DPRK was ________.

a. Kim Il-sung

b. Park Chung-hee

c. Syngman Rhee

d. Kim Jung-il

7. In January 1950 a unified Korea was ________.

a. extremely unlikely

b. impossible

c. achieved

d. expected

8. The UN ________ the DPRK’s invasion of the ROK.

a. ignored

b. was divided overt

c. tacitly supported

d. actively opposed

9. Looking at Map 11.3 “The Korean War” the DPRK’s assault on the ROK was ________.

a. unexpectedly successful

b. halted

c. moderately successful

d. an embarrassment

10. The ROK’s losses were proportionately heavier than the DPRK’s during the Korean War because the ________.

a. most of the fighting took place in the ROK

b. ROK’s military casualties were so much higher

c. the ROK was sparsely populated

d. the ROK lost roughly twice as many civilians during the war

11. Relative to the ROK the DPRK has ________ economically since the 1940s.

a. kept pace

b. hardly changed

c. evolved rapidly but in a different direction

d. developed much more rapidly

12. Unlike the DPRK authoritarian rule in the ROK has ________ since World War II.

a. come and gone

b. been avoided

c. become entrenched

d. been harsher

13. The image “President Park and President Kennedy” represents a period when the US friendship for the ROK was ________.

a. close

b. hostile

c. at its strongest

d. a necessity

14. In its first phase Park’s economic policy led to annual growth of ________ percent in the ROK’s exports.

a. 20

b. 40

c. 30

d. 10

15. Hyundai is an example of which of these?

a. juche

b. a chaebol

c. yangban

d. containment

16. US support for the ROK from World War II to 2000 is best described as ________.

a. generally stable

b. unwavering

c. undependable

d. nonexistent

17. The first real break in tensions between the ROK and the DPRK came in the ________.

a. 1980s

b. 1950s

c. 1970s

d. 1960s

18. In contrast to the accession of Kim Jung-un in the DPRK the election of Kim Dae-jung illustrated ________ in the ROK.

a. room for dissent

b. an emerging democracy

c. authoritarianism

d. peaceful transfer of power

19. Compared to earlier DPRK political ideology juche represented a more ________ direction.

a. Maoist

b. communist

c. open

d. nationalist

20. Compared to his predecessors Kim Jung-un is more threatening to China because he is more ________.

a. committed to classic Marxism

b. authoritarian

c. left-leaning

d. impulsive