Shinto--The Way Of The Kami Chapter 9 Full Test Bank

Chapter Nine: Shinto--The Way of the Kami

In this test bank for World Religions, Fourth Edition, there is a new system for identifying the difficulty of the questions. Questions are now tagged according to four levels of learning. Think of these four levels as moving from lower-level to higher-level cognitive reasoning. The four levels are:

REMEMBER: A question involving recall of key terms or factual material.

UNDERSTAND: A question testing comprehension of more complex ideas.

APPLY: A question applying anthropological knowledge to some new situation.

ANALYZE: A question requiring identifying elements of an argument and their interrelationship.

Types of Questions

Multiple-Choice Questions

1. The indigenous religion of Japan is called __________.
   1. Buddhism
   2. Daoism
   3. Jainism
   4. Shinto
   5. Tai Chi

(REMEMBER; p. 165)

1. The roots of Shinto are found in a popular myth of the origins of the Japanese islands. That myth is called the __________.
   1. Antipode
   2. Kami
   3. Kojiki
   4. Mahabarata
   5. Omer Kayyam

(REMEMBER; p. 166)

1. Shinto comes from two Chinese words (shen and dao) that mean the “way of the __________.
   1. Dao
   2. emperor
   3. spirits
   4. Sun Buddha
   5. Sun Goddess

(REMEMBER; p. 166)

1. The one most revered deity in Japan is __________.
   1. Amaterasu
   2. Amitabha
   3. the Jade Emperor
   4. Maitreya
   5. Nichiren

(REMEMBER; p. 167)

1. A __________ is a woman shaman in Japan.
   1. Amaterasu
   2. Izaganag
   3. kami
   4. miko
   5. ryobu

(REMEMBER; p. 168)

1. The most famous virtue of the bushido code of the samurai warrior is __________.
   1. empathy
   2. honor
   3. humility
   4. love
   5. restraint

(UNDERSTAND; p. 169)

1. Medieval Shinto sought to amalgamate Shinto with Confucianism and __________.
   1. Buddhism
   2. Christianity
   3. Daoism
   4. Hinduism
   5. Islam

(REMEMBER; p. 169)

1. The principal path to harmony and purity in traditional Shinto is through participation in __________.
   1. self-denial
   2. studying and chanting sacred texts
   3. pilgrimages to the Ganges River
   4. rituals
   5. meditation

(REMEMBER; p. 170)

1. Japan was forcibly reopened to Western trade and influence by American naval forces under Commodore Perry in the __________ century.
   1. sixteenth.
   2. seventeenth.
   3. eighteenth.
   4. nineteenth.
   5. twentieth

(REMEMBER; p. 169).

1. From 1890 until 1945 every Japanese child bowed daily before a picture of __________.
   1. Confucius
   2. the Emperor
   3. Jesus
   4. Laozi
   5. Mao Zedong

(REMEMBER; p. 170)

1. After World War II, ________ was outlawed in Japan.
   1. Confucianism
   2. Folk Shinto
   3. Sect Shinto
   4. Shrine Shinto
   5. State Shinto

(UNDERSTAND; p. 171)

1. Shinto’s ultimate goal is __________.
   1. assurance of life after death with God
   2. cosmic harmony
   3. liberation from the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth
   4. material prosperity
   5. restoration of the harmony of the feudal period

(REMEMBER; p. 172)

1. According to the Shinto worldview, humans are naturally __________.
   1. blank slates
   2. blind
   3. evil
   4. good
   5. lazy

(REMEMBER; p. 172)

1. According to the Shinto worldview, the basic dilemma to be overcome is __________.
   1. fear
   2. greed
   3. ignorance
   4. pollution
   5. sinfulness

(REMEMBER; p. 172)

1. According to the Shinto worldview, people will naturally follow the path or harmony with the kami unless they lose their __________ .
   1. ability to negotiate with them
   2. fear of them
   3. knowledge of them
   4. reverence of them
   5. status

(UNDERSTAND; p. 172)

1. The most popular national pilgrimage site is the Grand Imperial Shrine of __________ located at Ise.
   1. Amaterasu
   2. Confucius
   3. the Emperor
   4. Izanagi and Izanami
   5. Laozi

(REMEMBER; p. 173)

1. The entrance to a Shinto shrine is marked by a gateway known as a __________.
   1. butsu-dan
   2. haiden
   3. honden
   4. kokutai-no-hongi
   5. torii

(REMEMBER; p. 174).

1. According to Shinto tradition, the total number of kami is __________.
   1. infinite
   2. one (the Emperor)
   3. one (the Sun Goddess)
   4. strictly regulated by a government agency
   5. three (the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost)

(UNDERSTAND; p. 176)

1. In Shintoism, __________ symbolize the sacred quality of human existence, nature, and the cosmos as a whole.
   1. bodhisattvas
   2. children
   3. kami
   4. kamikazes
   5. llamas

(UNDERSTAND; p, 175)

1. According to the Shinto Myth, Japan is the land of the __________.
   1. Buddha
   2. free
   3. kami
   4. samurai
   5. shogun

(REMEMBER; p. 176)

1. The linchpin of the Shinto view of the nature of reality is __________.
   1. Amaterasu
   2. Buddha
   3. the Dao
   4. Japan
   5. Rice

(REMEMBER; p. 176)

1. One could argue that the effective religion for most modern Japanese is __________.
   1. amateurism
   2. atheism
   3. consumerism
   4. kamikaze
   5. shogunism

(REMEMBER; p. 176)

1. Most contemporary Japanese people consider themselves __________.
   1. Buddhist
   2. Confucian
   3. followers of new religious movements
   4. non-religious
   5. Shinto

(REMEMBER; p. 177)

1. More than in other East Asian societies, __________ has taken root and grown significantly in South Korea
   1. Buddhism
   2. Christianity
   3. Confucianism
   4. Marxism
   5. Shinto

(REMEMBER; p. 178)

1. The secular religion that flourishes in North Korea at this point in the twenty-first century focuses on __________.
   1. Kim Il Sung
   2. Mao Zedong
   3. Michael Jackson
   4. money
   5. nature

(UNDERSTAND; p. 178)

Essay Questions

1. Describe the various basic forms of Shinto that have appeared in the history of Japan, and the historical forces that encouraged their rise.
   (ANALYZE)
2. Discuss the assertion, “Although its leaders claimed it was not, State Shinto was indeed a religion.”
   (APPLY)
3. Use the concept of “purity” to describe basic Shinto teachings.
   (APPLY)
4. Discuss the relationship between the Shinto understanding of the kami and environmental conservationism.
   (APPLY)
5. Describe the main features of a Shinto shrine.
   (APPLY)
6. Describe the bushido code of the Samurai warrior and explain its relationship to Shinto.
   (ANALYZE)
7. Using the “framework for understanding” religious worldviews developed in Chapter 1, describe the Shinto worldview.
   (ANALYZE)
8. Outline the similarities and differences between the Shinto understanding of “harmony” and the “balance” that is a feature of the indigenous worldview in general (see Chapter Two).
   (ANALYZE)
9. Describe the role of religion in twenty-first century Japan and Korea.
   (UNDERSTAND)
10. Explore the relationship between the role of the Sun Goddess in Shintoism and theleadership roles of women in the religion (e.g., as miko).
    (ANALYZE)