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WorksheetsJapan Review
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 25mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
The traditional Japanese religion starting in the 8th century:
a)
Buddhism
b)
Yamato
c)
Shinto
d)
Heian
2.
What was Yamato?
a)
The first empress
b)
The first empire
c)
The first discovered island
d)
Prince Shotoko
3.
What was Prince Shotoko known for?
a)
Starting Legalism in Japan
b)
Uniting all the clans
c)
Defending his mother
d)
Bringing Chinese culture and Buddhism to Japan
4.
Which of the following were NOT apart of the Japanese diet?
a)
Rice
b)
Eel
c)
Shark
d)
Seaweed
5.
Which two countries influenced Japan?
a)
Indonesia and China
b)
Korea and China
c)
Russia and Korea
d)
Indonesia and Russia
6.
Who were were an early people who were believed to come from Siberia and eventually disappeared?
a)
Shinto
b)
Yamato
c)
Ainu
d)
Genji
7.
What was Kami?
a)
Chief of all the clans
b)
"Nature Spirit" in the Shinto religion
c)
Invaders form China
d)
The first female leader
8.
Which prince's name is the title of a famous piece of Japanese literature?
a)
Shotoko
b)
Genji
c)
Akria
d)
Takehiko
9.
Woman's style in Japan included the following EXCEPT:
a)
Long Hair
b)
Black Eye Makeup
c)
Heavy Gowns
d)
Powered White Faces
10.
The majority of writing in the Heian period was done by:
a)
Wealthy Woman
b)
Wealthy Men
c)
Chinese Scholars
d)
Professors
11.
Most people in Japan lived:
a)
In coastal plains
b)
By mountians
c)
In the river valleys
d)
By deserts
12.
Why was Japan isolated from Korea and China in ancient times?
a)
Trade between these nations was forbidden.
b)
Japan is separated by the Great Wall.
c)
Japan is thousands of miles away from Korea and China.
d)
Japan’s island location separated it from other people in Asia.
13.
What did the Yamato rulers govern before they called themselves emperors of Japan?
a)
a clan
b)
a monastery
c)
all of Japan
d)
a port city
14.
Which of the following is a characteristic of Pure Land Buddhism?
a)
an elaborate tea ceremony
b)
daily communal rituals
c)
raked gravel gardens
d)
chanting Buddha’s name
15.
How was the Buddhism of the Japanese nobles different from the Buddhism of the common people?
a)
The common people
attended regular religious
services.
b)
The nobles focused more
on good behavior than on
faith.
c)
Common people focused
more on lengthy
meditation sessions.
d)
Elaborate rituals were
practiced by nobles but
not by common people.
16.
Which list is in the order of most power to least power?
a)
Which list is in the order of
most power to least power?
b)
Which list is in the order of
most power to least power?
c)
Which list is in the order of
most power to least power?
d)
shogun, daimyo, samurai,
peasant
17.
Which of the following is a TRUE statement about life as a samurai?
a)
Samurai could trade.
b)
Samurai could get
married
c)
Samurai could attend the
theater.
d)
Samurai could take part in
commerce.
18.
Japanese nobles put aside their differences and united in 1274 to
a)
fight a common enemy, the invading Mongols.
b)
rebuild after a hurricane.
c)
overthrow a corrupt emperor in Heian.
d)
fight the outbreak of disease.
19.
During the 1400s, Japan was
a)
ruled by one powerful
emperor.
b)
split into two factions,
ruled by two shoguns.
c)
run by one shogun with
an emperor figurehead.
d)
divided, with many
daimyo controlling
different territories.
20.
Which of the following events happened after the royal court became a center for art and culture?
a)
Villages were ruled by
clans.
b)
Prince Shotoku ruled
Japan and spread Chinese
ideas.
c)
Shoguns took control of
Japan, creating a military
society.
d)
The Shinto religion began.
21.
Who unified Japan in the 1500s?
a)
Kublai Khan
b)
Oda Nobunaga
c)
Prince Shotoku
d)
Lady Murasaki Shikibu
22.
The samurai period in Japan lasted until the 1800s for all of the following reasons except
a)
Japanese believed samurai
were chosen by gods.
b)
Japan was isolated from
the rest of the world.
c)
Japan’s rulers limited
technology.
d)
Japan’s rulers banned
guns.
23.
What was the most important organization in Japan’s samurai society?
a)
the family
b)
the church
c)
the military
d)
the government
24.
What are extended families that ruled over small villages?
a)
Shoguns
b)
Dynasties
c)
Clans
d)
Friends
25.
A regent is:
a)
A person who rules a country for someone who is unable to rule alone
b)
An artisan that does the work of the masses
c)
A female shogun
d)
The handmaid of an empress
26.
A group of nobles who live near and serve or advise a ruler:
a)
Court
b)
Squad
c)
Cabinet
d)
Parlement
27.
Where did Japan’s court move to in the late 700s?
a)
Edo
b)
Heian
c)
Tokyo
d)
Chang'an
28.
Why did does the court move the capital?
a)
They want to be best friends with the emperor
b)
they wanted to live close to the emperor
c)
They thing the capital is the place to be
d)
It is super trendy to live in the capital
29.
What powerful daimyo of Japan in the late 16th century who attempted to unify Japan during the late Sengoku period?
a)
Tokugawa Ieyasu
b)
Oda Nobunaga
c)
Takamasa Ishahra
d)
Adobo Kishnmaka
30.
Who was the founder and first shogun of his family in Japan which ruled Japan for over 2,000 years?
a)
Hideka Togo
b)
Tokugawa Ieyasu
c)
Oda Masaja
d)
Mitsuo Tsukahara
31.
How did the daimyo help weaken the shoguns?
a)
Daimyo took control of their small piece of land
b)
They took charge of the pesants
c)
Killed the shoguns
d)
Asked the emperor for a levy
32.
When did the Mongols try to invade China?
a)
1270s and 1280s
b)
1370s and 1380s
c)
1850 and 1860s
d)
1550s and 1560s
33.
What was the relationship between samurai and daimyo?
a)
Daimyo hired the samurai to defend themselves and their property
b)
The samurai concurred all diamyo
c)
They hated eachother
d)
They had no iteration
34.
Japan came from a _________________ society.
a)
Military
b)
Religious
c)
Democratic
d)
Republic
35.
What was the rule of Japan by shoguns of a certain family, which lasted from the early 1600s to the 1860s
a)
Tokugawa shogunate
b)
Oda Packatimate
c)
Hideka Togo
d)
Tokugawa Ieyasu
36.
Type of Buddhism that believes that neither faith nor good behavior led to wisdom
a)
Zen
b)
Pure Land
c)
Mahayana
d)
Theravada
37.
What is a Noh?
a)
plays that combine music, speaking, and dance
b)
The highest group of nobles
c)
a super rich land owner
d)
A type of parchment
38.
Powerful Military lords who headed small territories:
a)
Samurai
b)
Buddhists Priest
c)
Shoya
d)
Daimyo
39.
One of the four largest island of Japan:
a)
Pitcarin
b)
Hokkaido
c)
Sri Lanka
d)
Coral Is.
40.
Warriors who agreed to fight with nobles in exchange for land
a)
Samurai
b)
Shogun
c)
Daimyo
d)
Jomon
41.
A female novelist and poet:
a)
Shirome
b)
Lady Kasa
c)
Murasaki Shikibu
d)
Princess Tajima
42.
Shogun is a:
a)
Priest
b)
Farmer
c)
Emperor
d)
Military Leader
43.
Taught about a happy life after death
a)
Islam
b)
Pure Land Buddhism
c)
Christianity
d)
Hinduism
44.
Why did the Japanese get so much of their diet from the sea?
a)
seafood tastes better
b)
they didn't have good farming techniques
c)
mountains left them with very little farmland
d)
they traded goods for most of their diet
45.
What was the name of the Samurai Warrior Code?
a)
Daiymo
b)
Bushido
c)
Samurai
d)
Tysaw
46.
What religion spread to Japan from China and Korea?
a)
Hindu
b)
Buddhism
c)
Shinto
d)
Christianity
47.
What was the name given to someone who appears to have power, but really doesn't?
a)
Daimyo
b)
Shogun
c)
Emperor
d)
Figurehead
48.
Who were at the bottom of Japan's Samurai Society?
a)
Emperor
b)
Shogun
c)
Daimyo and Samurai
d)
Peasants
49.
Japanese court life was...
a)
luxuriuos
b)
full of obligations
c)
stressful
d)
very much like peasant life
50.
Samurai warriors received __________________ for their services.
a)
money
b)
land
c)
nobel titles
d)
servants
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