Ch. 11 Japan Test Review

What do the people of Japan call their own country?

• Tokyo

• Nippon

• Jih-Pen

• Fuji

Which statement about Japan’s geography is true?

• Japan is one large island with no volcanoes.

• Japan is an archipelago (a group of islands) with many volcanoes.

• Japan is a desert region with few mountains.

• Japan has no farmland and must import all food.

Which Japanese island is the largest and most populated, and is home to Tokyo?

• Hokkaido

• Honshu

• Shikoku

• Kyushu

How does Japan get much of its food?

• It grows all of its food in the mountains.

• It depends on fish from the ocean and also imports some food.

• It only grows rice and exports everything else.

• It has no good farmland, so no crops can be grown there.

According to the passage, where are China and Korea located in relation to Japan?

• They are directly south of Japan.

• They are directly north of Japan.

• They are directly east of Japan.

• They are directly west of Japan.

Who were the earliest groups to settle in Japan?

• People from Africa who sailed across the ocean

• Stone Age Caucasians from Siberia and two groups of Oriental farmers

• Only traders from China looking for new markets

• A group of explorers from Europe looking for spices

What title did Jimmu Tenno, the first emperor of Japan, take?

• Emperor of the Rising Sun

• Mikado, which means “honorable gate”

• Shogun, which means “military commander”

• Daimyo, which means “powerful landowner”

What is Shinto, Japan’s oldest religion?

• The worship of nature gods and ancestors, and the belief that the emperor is divine

• A type of dance performed in Japanese temples

• The practice of farming on mountain slopes

• A language system for writing Japanese

Why are Chinese and Japanese written languages similar, even though the spoken languages are different?

• They share the same letters as English

• The monk Kobo Daishi replaced spoken Japanese with Chinese speech

• The Korean scribe Wa-ni brought Chinese characters to Japan, and later Japan developed a syllabary

• The two countries agreed to speak each other’s languages equally

Which of the following did Prince Shotoku do to shape Japanese society?

• He banned all foreign influence from Japan

• He adopted Confucian ideas and Buddhism, while keeping Shinto as a court and popular religion

• He forced everyone in Japan to learn only Chinese language

• He ended the monarchy and made Japan a democracy