Chapter 7 Self Quiz

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. Which of Japan's earliest industries successfully competed with European firms in India and China in the 1890s?

Shipbuilding correct incorrect

Match production correct incorrect

Textile thread production correct incorrect

Tea production correct incorrect

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. Which of the following was NOT at all a factor in pressure to raise productivity in Japanese agriculture in the late 19th century?

Growth in the overall population correct incorrect

A decline in the agricultural population correct incorrect

Desire of landowners for surplus after payment of land taxes correct incorrect

Demand for Japanese grain on foreign markets correct incorrect

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. Which of the following was NOT a method used to improve agricultural productivity in the last two decades of the 19th century?

Herring meal correct incorrect

Soybean cakes correct incorrect

Imported nightsoil correct incorrect

Expansion of the area under cultivation correct incorrect

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. Which of the following activities did the entrepreneurial rural class NOT engage in during the late 19th century?

Training their daughters as courtesans correct incorrect

Investing in factories correct incorrect

Educating their sons correct incorrect

Providing high-interest loans to needy farmers correct incorrect

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. Which of the following was NOT a policy initiated by the Meiji government to bolster its finances in the 1880s?

Taking large loans from the Americans and British correct incorrect

Returning to a silver-backed currency correct incorrect

Firing foreign advisors correct incorrect

Selling off unprofitable enterprises correct incorrect

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. Which of the following was an outcome of the Matsukata Deflation?

The yen weakened considerably against the British pound correct incorrect

Agricultural commodity prices declined by up to 50% correct incorrect

Impoverished fishermen on Hokkaido rebelled correct incorrect

Small landholders lost their land to corrupt government officials. correct incorrect

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. Which of the following was NOT a major Japanese industry in the 1890s?

Coal mining correct incorrect

Copper mining correct incorrect

Cotton production correct incorrect

Citrus fruit growing correct incorrect

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. Between 1880 and 1900, which of Japan's transport infrastructural networks expanded in length roughly three times over?

Highways correct incorrect

Canals correct incorrect

Railways correct incorrect

Unpaved roads correct incorrect

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. What was a zaibatsu?

A disaffected former samurai correct incorrect

A government-run industry correct incorrect

A coal mining company correct incorrect

A large, diversified corporation correct incorrect

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. Which of the following was NOT a factor in the success of capitalist industrial production in late 19th century Japan?

The proto-industrial legacy of the Tokugawa period correct incorrect

Robust demand for consumer goods in the countryside correct incorrect

Low wages correct incorrect

Import of Western industrial technology correct incorrect

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. What percentage of employees in early 20th century textiles mills were women?

Less than 50% correct incorrect

60-65% correct incorrect

70% correct incorrect

Over 80% correct incorrect

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. How long, on average, did it take young women sold into prostitution to repay the advance wages paid to their parents?

Six months correct incorrect

One year correct incorrect

Three to five years correct incorrect

Fifteen years or more correct incorrect

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. What did the study Workers' Conditions reveal about workers in the textile spinning industry?

Many of them could not stand to work in factories for very long correct incorrect

Many of them suffered from malnutrition correct incorrect

Many of them died in workplace fires or accidents correct incorrect

Many of them eventually resorted to sex work correct incorrect

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. Which of the following was a characteristic of the education system established by Mori Arinori?

It emphasised free-thinking and enterprise correct incorrect

It focused on practical skills correct incorrect

It excluded the children of non-elites correct incorrect

It was moralistic and state-centered correct incorrect

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. The Imperial Rescript on Education...

was profoundly anti-Confucian correct incorrect

was remarkably devoid of nationalistic sentiments correct incorrect

stressed loyalty to the emperor and filial piety correct incorrect

encouraged Japanese students to travel abroad correct incorrect

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. Natsume Soseki was...

a famous politician correct incorrect

a famous novelist correct incorrect

a famous industrialist correct incorrect

a famous painter correct incorrect

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. What criticism did reformers level against kabuki theatre?

It was wasteful correct incorrect

It was decadent correct incorrect

It denied roles to women correct incorrect

It was elitist correct incorrect

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. What did Ulysses Grant witness during his visit to Japan in 1879?

A former samurai protesting by committing suicide correct incorrect

A performance of kabuki theater correct incorrect

A dance by geisha correct incorrect

A performance of noh theater correct incorrect

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. Which of the following was NOT a step taken by the Meiji state to connect Shinto to the state?

The establishment of the Department of Divinity correct incorrect

Proclaiming that the state would be guided by Shinto gods correct incorrect

Establishing Yasukuni shrine correct incorrect

Deifying the Meiji revolutionaries correct incorrect

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. What was the primary concern of the Society for Political Education?

That Japan was losing its cultural identity correct incorrect

That women were insufficiently educated correct incorrect

That Japanese Christians were refusing accept Imperial authority correct incorrect

That the population would rise up against the Meiji leaders correct incorrect