Unit 3: The New Age in Asia - 3.02 Quiz

Unit 3: The New Age in Asia - 3.02 Quiz

1. Question : Why did the Tokugawa shogunate keep Japan isolated from 1603 until 1853?

Student Answer: to keep Japanese culture from spreading to other parts of the world   to keep foreigners from tampering with Japan's affairs   to prepare Japanese citizens for modernization   to prepare Japan for its role as an imperialist power

2. Question : Who traveled to the United States and Europe and returned to Japan with new ideas?

Student Answer: Mutsuhito   Tokutomi Soho   Fukuzawa Yukichi   Tokugawa

3. Question : Which of the following describes a way in which the Meiji government supported and encouraged Japan's modernization and industrialization?

Student Answer: closed all ports except Nagasaki to foreigners   invested in communication, transportation, and industry   set up an economy based on bartering   ordered schools to be open only to boys

4. Question : Which of the following best explains why Japan quickly built up its military in the late 1800s?

Student Answer: The Meiji government wanted to make eastern Russia a Japanese colony.   Neighboring Korea was a strong country and had a large military.   Western imperial powers controlled large parts of Asia.   Commodore Matthew Perry attacked Japanese ports in the 1850s.

5. Question : Why did the Meiji government begin building schools in most Japanese towns and villages in the late 1800s?

Student Answer: The government abolished the Japanese class system.   Officials knew that modernization required an educated workforce.   The government wanted to convert Japanese citizens to Christianity.   Military leaders wanted all children to be trained in the martial arts.

6. Question : Which of the following best explains Japan's imperialism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?

Student Answer: a desire to sell surplus goods to foreign markets   a desire to rule other countries just for the sake of ruling other countries   a desire to increase its wealth, power, security, and prestige   a desire to spread Buddhism to neighboring Asian countries

7. Question : As a result of Japan's imperialism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, __________.

Student Answer: it fought a war with China   a wave of nationalism swept through the country   it acquired three territories by 1910   all of the above   none of the above

8. Question : Western military might and the defeat of the Chinese by Britain in a series of wars explains which of the following?

Student Answer: Japane's decision to restore the shogunate to power.   Japan's decision to open their ports to foreign trade.   President Fillmore's decision to send Commodore Perry to Japan.   The Japanese emperor's decision to cut off trade with the West.