Korea Hermit Kingdom to 1895 Test Bank Ch.6 Desnoyers

Chapter 6

1. Looking at Map 6.1, Korea’s defensive wall separated it from ________.

a. the Uyghur Khanates

b. Song China

c. Japan

d. the Jurchens

2. The deportation of a quarter-million Koreans was part of the ________ effort to subdue Korea.

a. Jurchen

b. Manchu

c. Mongol

d. Song

3. The Yi Dynasty ruler Korea for roughly ________ centuries.

a. five

b. three

c. seven

d. two

4. Under the Yi rulers, reforms followed Chinese patterns with the exception of ________.

a. a new capital

b. a hereditary class system

c. an examinations system

d. neo-Confucianism

5. The turtle ships were protected by ________.

a. tightly woven bamboo mats

b. iron plates

c. stone armor

d. bronze rings

6. Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s invasion resulted in Korea’s ________.

a. alliance with Japan

b. conquest

c. triumph over Japan

d. devastation

7. In the seventeenth and later centuries, the power of the yangban was ________.

a. growing rapidly

b. gone

c. declining

d. stable

8. In the period of Qing rule Korea was ________ China.

a. independent of

b. generally ignored by

c. subordinate to

d. repeatedly invaded by

9. In the nineteenth century, treatment of Christians included all of the following EXCEPT ________.

a. admiration for their learning

b. suspicion

c. gaining official recognition

d. persecutions

10. The term “Hermit Kingdom” refers to Korea’s ________ in the nineteenth century.

a. seclusion

b. interest in neo-Confucianism

c. adoption of Christian monasticism

d. renewed Buddhist fervor

11. Which of these launched a failed mission to force Korea to open to trade in 1866?

a. Britain

b. Japan

c. France

d. the U.S.

12. The Treaty of Kanghwa alarmed Chinese leaders because of the growing power of ________.

a. Britain

b. Japan

c. the Qing

d. Korea

13. Korean attitudes towards Japan generally ________ in the nineteenth and into the twentieth centuries.

a. improved

b. reversed

c. deteriorated

d. were unchanged

14. The goals of the examination system were generally undercut by the ________.

a. Yi rulers

b. yangban

c. merchant class

d. Qing rulers

15. In the image above, the two men pictured are most likely ________.

a. the boy’s relatives

b. passersby

c. the boy’s teachers

d. bearers

16. Commercialization of agriculture tended to ________ social norms in Korea.

a. run counter to

b. reinforce

c. revolutionize

d. reverse

17. Generally, rural Korean women ________ relative to men from the eighteenth century.

a. won legal rights

b. retained their rights

c. lost ground socially

d. gained greater autonomy

18. The han’gul had the great advantage of being ________.

a. developed independent of Chinese culture

b. easier to use than Chinese characters

c. based on earlier Korean traditions

d. legible only to trained scribes

19. As in China, Korean use of its two writing systems tended to vary according to a person’s ________.

a. gender

b. religion

c. national origin

d. age

20. Christianity tended to run counter to ________ in Korea.

a. Buddhist ideals

b. prohibitions against commerce

c. Confucian norms

d. popular religion