Chapter 5 Self Quiz

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. The decade after the Meiji Restoration witnessed...

The creation of a new shogunate correct incorrect

The assumption of absolute power by the emperor correct incorrect

Dramatic and unprecedented changes in politics, society, economy correct incorrect

The execution of large numbers of samurai correct incorrect

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. Why is the Meiji Restoration called a 'revolution from above'?

Because it was spearheaded by the highly ranked urban bourgeoisie correct incorrect

Because it was imposed by leading global powers correct incorrect

Because it was fast-paced and dramatic correct incorrect

Because it was initiated by the samurai elite correct incorrect

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. Which of the following was NOT a major challenge faced by the Meiji revolutionaries after seizing power?

The semi-independent domains with their own armies correct incorrect

Discontent among samurai in the domains that led the Restoration correct incorrect

Potential foreign encroachment correct incorrect

A movement to revive the Tokugawa shogunate correct incorrect

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. The 'return of lands to the emperor' was significant because it...

Signalled the beginning of the end of the domains correct incorrect

Marked the end of direct imperial rule correct incorrect

Allowed foreigners to own land in Japan correct incorrect

Increased the Meiji government's assets dramatically correct incorrect

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. In the four years after 1871, the daimyo were NOT forced to...

Give up their noble status correct incorrect

Give up their lucrative pensions correct incorrect

Move to Tokyo correct incorrect

Stop governing their domains correct incorrect

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. What period of Japanese history did the Meiji restorationists turn to in order to model their new government?

The early bakufu correct incorrect

Oda Nobunaga's rule correct incorrect

The Heian period correct incorrect

Ancient, semi-mythological Japan correct incorrect

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. Which of the following was NOT a reason the Meiji government eliminated samurai stipends after 1876?

The samurai's martial skills were no longer valued by the new government correct incorrect

The stipends were a massive drain of government revenue correct incorrect

The samurai were using the stipends to fund rebels correct incorrect

The samurai were seen as giving back relatively little despite their high cost correct incorrect

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. When were all samurai stipends converted to government bonds?

1868 correct incorrect

1869 correct incorrect

1876 correct incorrect

1881 correct incorrect

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. Which of the following groups did NOT gain new opportunities after the Meiji Restoration?

Landowners correct incorrect

Daimyo lords correct incorrect

Rural manufacturers correct incorrect

Foreign merchants correct incorrect

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. Why was Omura Masajiro assassinated?

Because he opposed having a national amy correct incorrect

Because he betrayed the samurai of Kyoto correct incorrect

Because he, Kido Koin, and Yamagata Aritomo argued for a conscript army correct incorrect

Because he exiled Yamagata Aritomo to Europe correct incorrect

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. Why did angry crowds attack and destroy army registration centres in 1873-1874?

Because they were strongly opposed to the draft correct incorrect

Because they were forced to pay a large tax for the army correct incorrect

Because of a corruption scandal in military procurements correct incorrect

Because they preferred armies of samurai correct incorrect

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. Why did the Meiji government initiate a mass education system in 1872?

Because Aizawa Yasushi had advised that doing so would strengthen the nation correct incorrect

Because they believed that mass education was essential to prosperity and national power correct incorrect

Because literacy in Japan had been declining correct incorrect

Because the Americans and French insisted they do so correct incorrect

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. What distinguished learning between the sexes in Meiji Japan?

Females were educated for domestic roles, whereas males were educated for roles outside the home correct incorrect

Females were not required to attend school, whereas males were correct incorrect

Males learned Christianity and enlightenment ideals, whereas women learned only practical skills correct incorrect

There was no difference. correct incorrect

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. Meiji era subjects did NOT resist universal education for students by...

Keeping children out of school correct incorrect

Rioting against school taxes correct incorrect

Attacking school buildings correct incorrect

Murdering teachers correct incorrect

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. In which year did Tokyo officially become capital of Meiji Japan?

1869 correct incorrect

1879 correct incorrect

1889 correct incorrect

1899 correct incorrect

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. What was the ideological role of the Emperor Meiji in post-restoration Japan?

He was politically irrelevant correct incorrect

He was a symbol of Tokugawa power correct incorrect

He was a sovereign to whom all owed loyalty correct incorrect

He was an object of anti-monarchist ridicule correct incorrect

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. What does fukoku kyohei stand for?

'Great East, Weak West' correct incorrect

'Expel the Barbarians, Revere the Emperor' correct incorrect

'Rich country, strong army' correct incorrect

'Emperor, gold, guns, land' correct incorrect

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. Which of the following was NOT a 'model industry' in Meiji Japan?

Cotton-spinning correct incorrect

Beer brewing correct incorrect

Shipbuilding correct incorrect

Locomotive manufacture correct incorrect

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. How did the Meiji government perceive the West in the early years of the new regime?

As fearsome and worthy of emulation correct incorrect

As decadent and weak correct incorrect

As certain to invade Japan in the near future correct incorrect

As full of trusted allies correct incorrect

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. Which of the following areas did the Meiji government NOT bring under direct rule by the 1880s?

Ryukyu correct incorrect

Hokkaido correct incorrect

Taiwan correct incorrect

Kyushu correct incorrect