Quiz

1	After emperor Yongle of the Ming dynasty, the later emperors discontinued maritime expeditions primarily because
			Portuguese adventurers defeated the Chinese navy.
			new Mongol invasions turned China's attention to the north.
			neither of the above is right.
2	During the 1520s and 1560s, problems of pirates and smugglers became a major threat to stability of the Ming dynasty. Most of the pirates were
			Chinese.
			Japanese.
			Portuguese.
3	Which of the following is least true of the Manchus?
			They were mostly pastoral nomads from Manchuria north of the Great Wall.
			They were just characters in an American TV show.
			They established the Qing dynasty.
4	Scholar-bureaucrats of China, who were very much responsible for the political stability, were
			from aristocratic families.
			free from corporal punishment.
			recruited through civil service examinations.
5	Which of the following is not true of China's civil service system?
			It was open to all.
			It provided the poor with an avenue for upward social mobility.
			It guaranteed the central place of Confucianism in Chinese education.
6	Which of the following reflects the least of women's status during the Ming and Qing dynasties?
			footbinding.
			wedding custom.
			filial piety.
7	By 1750, China's population had reached
			225 million.
			100 million.
			160 million.
8	Technological innovation slowed down during the Ming and Qing times because
			China's trade and market economy were declining.
			China's population decreased.
			Chinese regimes discouraged technological innovation.
9	In the view of Emperor Qianlong, the trade between China and England was
			mutually beneficial.
			a favor to England.
			harmful to China.
10	By far the biggest social class in early modern China was
			gentry class.
			"mean people."
			peasants.
11	By Confucian social classification, merchants were
			elite.
			below peasants and artisans.
			mean people.
12	Which of the following was not one of the three popular novels during the Ming and Qing times?
			The Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
			Dream of the Red Chamber.
			Tripmaster Monkey.
13	Which of the following is the least true of the Jesuit mission in China?
			Jesuits attracted a large crowd of followers and Christianity became a popular religion.
			Jesuits captured Chinese interests with European science and technology.
			Both the pope and emperor Kangxi did not approve of the Jesuits' conduct in China.
14	In order to control daimyo and maintain political stability, Tokugawa bakufu
			instituted policy of "alternative attendance."
			forcefully arranged marriage between Tokugawa and daimyo families.
			disarmed daimyo and their samrai.
15	The self-imposed seclusion of the Tokugawa government included
			forbidding Japanese from going abroad and Europeans from trading in Japan.
			forbidding Chinese and Dutch merchants from trading at Nagasaki.
			forbidding scholars of Neo-Confucianism from teaching in Japan.
16	The most important measure of population control adopted by many Japanese families between 1700 and 1850 was
			abortion.
			infanticide.
			late marriage.
17	In the "floating worlds," one could find
			Neo-Confucian schools, Shinto shrines, Buddhist temples.
			Kabuki theaters, bunraku, brothels, public baths, teahouses.
			decorated luxury boats floating over the river water.
18	Which of the following is the least true of Christianity in Tokugawa Japan?
			It had an initial success.
			It got along well with Buddhist and Confucian teachings.
			It was brutally persecuted by Tokugawa shoguns.
19	"Dutch learning" referred to
			a small number of Chinese scholars learning Dutch at Guangzhou.
			a small number of Japanese scholars learning Dutch at Nagasaki.
			A systematic campaign of cultural borrowing launched by shoguns.
20	In comparison with the societies of the Americas and much of sub-Sahara, early modern China and Japan
			were able to control their own affairs.
			also suffered turmoil inflicted by European powers.
			fell into semi-colonial status.