Chapter 27 Japan and the Koreas

What religion was brought to Korea and later carried to Japan by Chinese missionaries?

• Shinto

• Buddhism

• Confucianism

• Christianity

In Japan, the elected legislature is called the

• Kyoto Protocol

• Diet

• Parliment

• Shogun

Most of Japan’s major cities are located on the island of

• Honshu

• Hokkaido

• Shikoku

• Kyushu

What type of characters represent whole words in the Japanese writing system?

• Kanji

• Kami

• Kana

• Kimchi

About how many people live in Pyongyang?

• 300,000

• 1,000,000

• 3,000,000

• 10,000,000

Compared to California, Japan is

• half as large, with twice the population.

• twice as large, with half the population.

• about the same size, with four times the population

• four times as large, with about the same population.

The average farm in the U.S. is how many times as large as the average farm in Japan?

• 5

• 15

• 50

• 175

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) is really

• a republic.

• a democracy.

• a democracy and a republic.

• neither a democracy or a republic.

The Korean War began in

• 1941.

• 1950.

• 1963.

• 1994.

Kimchi is made from pickled

• cabbage.

• eggs.

• fish.

• beets.