WHAP ch 13

What is the name of the nature spirits of Japan?

• Hapu
• Kami
• Hara-kin
• Genji

What religion played a key role in the transmission of Chinese civilization to Japan?

• Buddhism
• Daoism
• Islam
• Christianity

In which of the following Japanese periods was Chinese cultural influence most significant?

• Taika
• Nara
• Heian
• Tokugawa

What was the immediate impact of the imperial move to Heian?

• Buddhism ceased to play a major role in Japanese society.
• The scholar-gentry was able to assert itself through the state's acceptance of a formal examination system modeled on the Chinese bureaucracy.
• The aristocracy was restored to counterbalance the power of the Buddhist monasteries and took over most of the positions in the central government.
• Shintoism was formally suppressed following the marriage of the Empress Koken to a former monk.

Life in the imperial court at Heian was described in what Japanese novel?

• Ashikage Analects
• Tale of Genji
• Mirror of Lady Murasaki
• Romance of the Rose

What appears to have been the primary concerns at the imperial Japanese court at Heian?

• Military exercise
• Science and technology
• Social interaction and status
• Commerce and trade

Mounted troops owing loyalty to the military elite were called

• bushi
• samurai
• kata
• Yoritomo

What was the impact of the rise of the samurai on the peasantry in Japan?

• Japanese peasants were reduced to the status of serfs bound to the land they worked.
• The samurai were critical to the development of a free peasantry on which the warriors depended on supplies of food and arms.
• The creation of the samurai created a period of great social mobility in Japan during which people rabidly moved out of the peasantry and into the class of warriors.
• Although separated from the warriors by rigid class barriers, the peasantry achieved greater levels of personal freedom and economic prosperity.

Which of the following statements concerning the nature of the Korean society is most accurate?

• Like the Japanese during the same period, Korean society is typified by the rise of strong merchant and artisan classes.
• Like the Chinese, a wealthy merchant class arose in Korea, but according to Confucian dictates it never achieved high social status.
• Because of the monopolization of all things Chinese by the tiny Korean elite, neither a merchant nor an artisan class developed in Korea.
• Korean society followed the Chinese model of a strong scholar-gentry, a weak aristocracy, and a highly regarded though politically impotent peasantry.

Following the assertion of Vietnamese independence from China in the tenth century, what aspects of Chinese culture were retained by the Vietnamese rulers.

• Chinese family organization
• The Chinese administrative system based on the Confucian examination system
• A highly centralized administrative system manned by a powerful scholar-gentry
• The successful suppression of the peasantry