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Worksheets7th Grade Chapter 18
Total questions: 45
Worksheet time: 23mins
What does the movement of Earths plate underneath Japan produce?
Hurricanes
High winds
Earthquakes
Tsunami
Why does so much of the Japanese diet come from the ocean?
Because the government only allows a certain number of farms.
Because there is limited land for growing crops and the ocean is convenient.
Because the Japanese people had allergies.
Because farmers are too busy fighting natives.
What common factor united people in a specific clan in early Japan?
ancestor
religion
land owned
ethnicity
Which of the following statements about Prince Shotoku’s Constitution of Seventeen Articles is true?
The Constitution set laws for farming
The Constitution promoted local government.
The Constitution was influenced by Christianity.
The Constitution explained Confucianism.
Before he became Japan’s first shogun, which clan did Minamoto Yoritomo have to defeat?
Daimyo
Kyoto
samurai
Taira
What did peasants give their daimyo in return for the protection his samurai offered?
Promise to fight enemies
Manufactured goods
Labor and crops
Gold
How did Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu treat the daimyo similarly?
They both asked the daimyo to get rid of their samurai.
They both forced the daimyo to pledge loyalty to them.
They both commanded the daimyo to leave.
They both banished the daimyo from Japan to the United States.
Which of the following groups would most likely attend a Kabuki performance?
Nobles
Samurai
Showgun
Farmers
Who wrote The Tale of Genji?
The emperor
A Buddhist monk
a woman
Buddha
What was a core value in Japanese families?
Bravery
Ambition
Loyalty
wealth
Which of the following is the traditional religion of Japan?
Hinduism
Christianity
Shinto
Daimyo
Which of the following statements about Buddhism in Japan is true?
It can be practiced at the same time as the Shinto religion.
Buddhism is the same as Christianity
It has traditionally attracted only the upper classes of society.
People cannot practice Buddhism and Shinto at the same time.
What was a key outdoor feature of many Japanese nobles’ homes?
A pool
a garden
A theater
a temple
In the Japanese feudal system, what made the daimyo so powerful at first?
court
land
religion
allies
What did the title of shogun originally mean?
Supreme military commander
Supreme Battle
Supreme samurai
Supreme clan leader
Which phrase best describes Japan’s geography?
Landlocked
Limited farmland
Desert-like
under water
Prince Shotoku believed that both Buddhism and ____________ could unify Japan.
Kami
Confucianism
Tang China
the Shogun
The Sun Goddess was the Yamato clan’s __________.
shogun
figurehead
kami
daimyo
Under the Fujiwara family, the emperor lost control of his government and became nothing more than a(n) __________.
figurhead
samurai
merchant
daimyo
The code of the samurai, translated to mean “the way of the warrior,” was called ____________.
shrine
torii
bushido
kami
A torii marks the entrance of a Shinto place of worship, also called a _________.
kami
bushido
consensus
shrine
Many Japanese people felt that ___________ was necessary to achieve harmony.
merchant
consensus
kami
bushido
Under the rule of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the ____________ class became the wealthiest class in Japan.
merchant
shogun
figurehead
bushido
What is the northernmost Japanese island?
Hokkaido
Ryukyu
Tokyo
Honshu
What is the southernmost Japanese island?
Hokkaido
Korea
Ryukyu islands
Edo
Where do most people live in Japan?
in Korea
Inland
The mountains
The coast
How did the Yamato clan gain power?
They were not powerful
slowly negotiated
force, on horses with bows and arrows
force, guns and bombs
Yamato clan used ______________ to take control of government.
gold
divorce
trade
marriage
__________ and ___________ helped build the Yamato economy
iron and irrigation
gold and silver
rice and fish
mules and sheep
Clan leaders were .....
very poor
religious leaders within their clans
not religious
bad leaders
Why were clan leaders afraid that they would lose power as people converted to Buddhism?
Buddhism cause wars
people would not have any religion and be unhappy
Buddhism taught people to take power from people
people would stop worshiping their kami and lead to less power
What do the battles between the samurai and Mongol invaders tell you about the beliefs and loyalty of samurai?
The samurai fought the Mongol warriors. They lost in a devastating battle because they did not try hard enough and the shogun was very displeased.
The samurai were did not fight the Mongols because they were peace seeking individuals. They preferred to meditate with Buddhist monks.
The samurai fought hard but could not beat the Mongol warriors. They trained hard but still could not overtake them.
The samurai fought and beat back the Mongol warriors against incredible odds. Their endurance and brave fighting show how dedicated they were to their lords and country.
How did Tokugawa Ieyasu weaken power?
He did not weaken them
forcing all daimyo to move to one city
taking away their food
taxation
How did the Japanese system of feudalism change under the Tokugawa shoguns?
Peasants were no longer as tied to their daimyo.
It did not change
Gave more power
Peasants had to pay extra taxes
The daimyo, and their samurai, were then further weakened as the _____________ grew to be the wealthiest class.
Torii class
figurehead class
merchant class
shogun class
Who was the Taira and Minamoto clans had a common enemy?
Fujiwara
Tokugwara
Torii
Yamato
What two clans worked together to force the Fujiwara out of power.
Minamoto and Tokyo
Yamato and Honshu
Taira and Minamoto
Taira and Yamato
In Japan’s feudal society, who was the least powerful group of the lowest level?
daimyo
artisans
merchants
peasants
In Japan’s feudal society, who was at the top?
Emperor was at the top level and he got to make all of the rules for everyone to follow.
Daimyo was the top and everyone had to follow his wishes or the samurai would kill them
Shogun was technically the top level of feudalism, he had to follow the emperors wishes
Emperor was technically the top level of feudalism, he had to follow the shogun’s wishes
Higher classes of Japanese society enjoyed _____________drama
Noh
Kabuki
Zen
Shingon
lower classes enjoyed _________ drama
Shingon
Kabuki
Noh
Pure Land
nobles often practiced ____________ sect of Buddhism
Noh
Pure Land
Shingon
Zen
samurai often practiced __________ Buddhism
Zen
Shingon
Pure Land
Kambuki
all classes were attracted to ____________Buddhism.
Noh
Shingon
Pure Land
Zen
Who were the largest land owners
daimyo
emperor
shogun
merchants
