Japan Quiz Unit Review

What percentage of the land in Japan can be used for agriculture?

• 80%
• 15%
• 5%
• 65%

What is this called?

• Torri Gate
• Red Shrine
• Buddhist Shrine
• Japanese Gate

What route did Buddhism take to reach Japan?

• China, Korea, India, Japan
• Korea, India, China, Japan
• India, China, Korea, Japan
• India, Korea, China, Japan

In Buddhism, what is it called when a soul is reborn until it reaches enlightenment?

• rebirth
• reincarnation
• resurrection
• seppuku

Which sentence below is an example of cultural diffusion?

• Warships and armies from Japan attacked Korea.
• Practices and beliefs spread from Korea to Japan.
• Written languages developed separately in Japan and Korea.
• Korea and Japan grew different crops because of different climates.

Japan's government before the time of Prince Shotoku was?

• power was divided among the uji
• controlled by China
• a meritocracy
• had a bureaucracy of official

After they learned about Chinese writing, what did the Japanese do?

• changed their grammar to be more like Chinese
• began speaking Chinese in everyday conversation
• invented a new set of characters based on objects in Japan
• used simplified Chinese characters for sounds in Japanese words

In Heian Japan, what did the folds in a fan represent?

• a person's job
• a person's religion
• a person's rank
• a person's education

The country that had the most impact on Japan's language, writing and government is?

• Korea
• China
• India
• Russia

In the Heian period of Japan, which of the following groups had a great impact on the culture of Japan?

• farmers
• peasants
• emperors
• aristocrats