GRADE 8 QUIZ

Has a total of 6,852 islands . The four largest islands are Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu, and Shikoku.

(a)  

The performance of Japanese music has traditionally been of a __________ character.

• SPIRITUAL

• PHYSICAL

• MENTAL

• EMOTIONA

Big Drum of Japan. Commonly used in Matsuri.

• TSURIDAIKO

• ODAIKO

• TAIKO

• TSUZUMI

What is the traditional Japanese art of paper folding?

• Origami

• Uchiwa

• Anime

• Manga

Classic China doll has a pyramidal body of elaborate, many-layered textiles stuffed with straw and/or wood blocks, carved wood hands.

• KOKESHI

• DARUMA

• HINAMATSURI

• UIKIYO-E

An umbrella term for a wide variety of comic books and graphic novels originally produced and published in Japan.

• ORIGAMI

• UCHIWA

• ANIME

• MANGA

It is the world's second-most-populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion.

(a)  

Music in China is strongly influenced by philosophy and concepts of important historical thinkers such as __________.

• CONFUCIUS

• BUDDHISM

• CHRISTIANITY

• ISLAM

Chinese music is as old as Chinese civilization. Its development started way back during the ___________ Dynasty.

• HAN

• QIN

• SHANG

• QING

The tonality of Chinese music is __________.

• HEPTATONIC

• PENTATONIC

• HOMOPHONIC

• HETEROPHONIC