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Week 3 Shinsa

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The feudal system was a social control. What do social controls do?

a)

Maintain order and peace.

b)

Control peoples' social media.

c)

Force people to act a certain way.

d)

Made people obey their parents.

2.

Why did the Japanese accept class distinctions?

a)

Confucian teachings emphasized duties and obligations to one another.

b)

The Christian faith encouraged obedience.

c)

Feudal traditions from Europe influenced Japan.

d)

Japanese valued individual power over group happiness.

3.

What aspect of the Japanese worldview does the concept of goningumi (where lower class households were grouped and held collectively responsible) best represent?

a)

The Japanese worldview valued the collective responsibility of individuals to the group.

b)

The Japanese worldview valued the punishment of those in the lower classes.

c)

The Japanese worldview valued the ability for people to have much freedom within the feudal pyramid.

d)

The Japanese worldview thought the number five to be a lucky number.

4.

How did traditional Japanese family structures represent Confucian ideas?

a)

Families were organized around filial piety, or devotion to parents.

b)

Families represented the Confucian saying "What you do not wish for yourself, do not do to others."

c)

Families were organized for protection.

d)

Families represented the five basic relationships of Confucianism.

5.

The Southern Barbarians were:

a)

Traders from Portugal wanting to set up trading ports around the Indian Ocean.

b)

The Portuguese monarchy and their representative governments wanting dealings with Japan.

c)

People from islands south of Japan, war-like towards the Japanese.

d)

Christians from Europe wanting to bring Japanese people back to Europe.

6.

What values did the Southern Barbarians have that the Japanese did not?

a)

The Southern Barbarians had been influenced by the Renaissance ideals of competition, the individual, and a more flexible social structure.

b)

The Southern Barbarians were focused on setting up colonies in Japan and valued its economic systems.

c)

The Southern Barbarians wanted to expand European culture and bring back Japanese culture with them.

d)

The Southern Barbarians wanted to go to war with Japan for its resources.

7.

Why was the shogun upset by Christian missionaries' attempts to convert people to Catholicism in Japan?

a)

The Japanese valued loyalty to social ranks above them, such as daimyo, shogun, and Emperor, and the missionaries emphasized loyalty only to God.

b)

The Shinto religion emphasized spiritual guidance to their own leader.

c)

The Shinto religion borrowed practices from Buddhism and Confucianism, and the shogun was upset about this tradition being forgotten.

d)

Christianity had no ethical codes to guide decisions about right and wrong.

8.
Collectivism is a Japanese value rooted in traditional beliefs. What does collectivism encourage?
a)
Generosity, kindness, and duty.
b)
Achievement, individual success, and self-reliance.
c)
Collaboration, competition, and communication.
d)
Courage, honesty, and determination.
9.
If you went on a field trip to Japan, you would probably see students going to school dressed in uniforms. What does this reflect about traditional Japanese worldviews?
a)
Uniforms emphasize the fact that everyone belongs to a group, which creates order and harmony.
b)
Uniforms represent the Japanese value of beauty.
c)
Uniforms help people to conform, which helps them to hide from punishment if they do something wrong.
d)
Uniforms encourage people to forget who they are.
10.
"The nail that sticks out gets hammered down" is a Japanese proverb that reflects which Japanese values?
a)

Respect and collectivism.

b)
Respect for the people at the top of society.
c)
The obligations between a lord and his samurai.
d)
The needs of the individual are valued over the needs of the group.