Unit 5 Test: Japan [HOMEWORK]

Use the information to answer the question.

The Japanese language uses thousands of written characters called kanji. Each of these characters expresses a different meaning. Some are used for numbers and for writing dates. Others are used to refer to people and places. Kanji can also be used to represent sounds in the Japanese language.

This information describes which culture’s contribution to the Japanese writing system?

• Arab

• Chinese

• Egyptian

• Indian

Use the excerpt to answer the question.

I. Harmony is to be valued, and the avoidance of wanton [deliberate] opposition honoured. . . .

IV. Ministers and functionaries should make decorous [proper] behavior their guiding principle, for decorous behavior is the main factor in governing the people. If superiors do not behave with decorum, inferiors are disorderly; if inferiors are wanting in proper behaviour, offences are inevitable.

—Prince Shötoku Taishi, Seventeen-Article Constitution, 604CE

This excerpt shows the influence of which tradition on early Japanese government?

• Christianity

• Confucianism

• Hinduism

• Islam

Which of the following statements describe the influence of China and Korea on Japan's RELIGON?

• Islam adopted after conversion of the emperor

• Monotheism replaced worship of several gods

• Buddhist ideas combined with traditional practices

• Spiritual beliefs and political authority kept separate

Which of the following statements describe the influence of China on Japan's GOVERNMENT?

• Confucian principles supported imperial rule

• A cabinet and elected legislature were created

• Religious beliefs and political ideas were kept separate

• A written constitution limited the power of the emperor

Which people had the MOST influence on ideas about government in early Japan?

• Muslim traders

• Christian monks

• Mongol warriors

• Confucian scholars

Which statement BEST describes how another culture contributed to the Japanese writing system?

• Nomadic peoples introduced writing as they settled the islands of Japan.

• Chinese characters are used to express ideas and sounds in the Japanese language.

• As a result of conquest and colonization, many Japanese words have a Mongol origin.

• Due to the influence of Buddhism, sacred texts in Japan are written in an Indian script.

Since Japan did not have its own written language before the 8th Century A.D., the earliest Japanese historical and religious works were written in __________.

• Sanskrit

• Latin

• Korean

• Chinese

Buddhism came to Japan from the countries of __________.

• China and Korea

• China and Russia

• China and Indonesia

• China and Thailand

Use the excerpt to answer the question.

. . . Bu-shi-do means literally Military-Knight-Ways — the ways which fighting nobles should observe in their daily life as well as in their vocation [profession]. . . .

—from Bushido: the Soul of Japan, An Exposition of Japanese Thought, Inazō Nitobe, 1899

What circumstances in Japan MOST likely led to the development of this concept?

• Japan was organized under a central government.

• Japan was an imperial power establishing colonies.

• Japan was governed by a foreign power after a military defeat.

• Japan was divided into large landholdings protected by warriors.

During the era of the lord–vassal society in Japan, which group of people actually ruled Japan and truly held power?

• the emperors

• the samurai

• the shoguns

• the artisans