Deck 6: Becoming the Hermit Kingdom: Korea From the Mongol Invasions to 1895

Question 1

-Looking at Map 6.1, Korea's defensive wall separated it from ________.

A) the Uyghur Khanates
B) Song China
C) Japan
D) the Jurchens

Answer 1

D

Question 2

The deportation of a quarter-million Koreans was part of the ________ effort to subdue Korea.

A) Jurchen
B) Manchu
C) Mongol
D) Song

Answer 2

C

Question 3

The Yi Dynasty ruler Korea for roughly ________ centuries.

A) five
B) three
C) seven
D) two

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Under the Yi rulers, reforms followed Chinese patterns with the exception of ________.

A) a new capital
B) a hereditary class system
C) an examinations system
D) neo-Confucianism

Question 5

The turtle ships were protected by ________.

A) tightly woven bamboo mats
B) iron plates
C) stone armor
D) bronze rings

Question 6

Toyotomi Hideyoshi's invasion resulted in Korea's ________.

A) alliance with Japan
B) conquest
C) triumph over Japan
D) devastation

Question 7

In the seventeenth and later centuries, the power of the yangban was ________.

A) growing rapidly
B) gone
C) declining
D) stable

Question 8

In the period of Qing rule Korea was ________ China.

A) independent of
B) generally ignored by
C) subordinate to
D) repeatedly invaded by

Question 9

In the nineteenth century, treatment of Christians included all of the following EXCEPT ________.

A) admiration for their learning
B) suspicion
C) gaining official recognition
D) persecutions

Question 10

The term "Hermit Kingdom" refers to Korea's ________ in the nineteenth century.

A) seclusion
B) interest in neo-Confucianism
C) adoption of Christian monasticism
D) renewed Buddhist fervor

Question 11

Which of these launched a failed mission to force Korea to open to trade in 1866?

A) Britain
B) Japan
C) France
D) the U.S.

Question 12

The Treaty of Kanghwa alarmed Chinese leaders because of the growing power of ________.

A) Britain
B) Japan
C) the Qing
D) Korea

Question 13

Korean attitudes towards Japan generally ________ in the nineteenth and into the twentieth centuries.

A) improved
B) reversed
C) deteriorated
D) were unchanged

Question 14

The goals of the examination system were generally undercut by the ________.

A) Yi rulers
B) yangban
C) merchant class
D) Qing rulers

Question 15

-In the image above, the two men pictured are most likely ________.

A) the boy's relatives
B) passersby
C) the boy's teachers
D) bearers

Question 16

Commercialization of agriculture tended to ________ social norms in Korea.

A) run counter to
B) reinforce
C) revolutionize
D) reverse

Question 17

Generally, rural Korean women ________ relative to men from the eighteenth century.

A) won legal rights
B) retained their rights
C) lost ground socially
D) gained greater autonomy

Question 18

The han'gul had the great advantage of being ________.

A) developed independent of Chinese culture
B) easier to use than Chinese characters
C) based on earlier Korean traditions
D) legible only to trained scribes

Question 19

As in China, Korean use of its two writing systems tended to vary according to a person's ________.

A) gender
B) religion
C) national origin
D) age

Question 20

Christianity tended to run counter to ________ in Korea.

A) Buddhist ideals
B) prohibitions against commerce
C) Confucian norms
D) popular religion