Deck 17: South Asia China and Japan From Medieval to Modern Times

Question 1

The Mughal emperor Shah Jahan erected the ___________ as a tomb and monument for his wife; eventually it also served as his tomb.

A) Hall of Supreme Harmony
B) Dome of the Rock
C) Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus
D) Taj Mahal

Answer 1

D

Question 2

What is a Japanese Noh play?

A) a form of interactive improvisational theater
B) a combination of drama with ritual and slapstick
C) a dramatic enactment of Buddha's life
D) a drama in which actors wear wooden masks

Answer 2

D

Question 3

What Chinese decorative art was exported to the West by traders and missionaries?

A) gilded statuettes
B) painted parchment
C) decorated porcelain
D) embroidered silk

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Where did the calligraphy of the Mughal Empire originate?

A) Arabia
B) Persia
C) China
D) Greece

Question 5

What was the purpose of art produced under the Chinese Communist Party?

A) to glorify China's diverse cultural history
B) to underscore the teachings of Confucius
C) to establish Mao's divine right to the Chinese monarchy
D) to praise the party and the virtues of hard work

Question 6

How did the subject matter of Mughal painting differ from earlier Hindu and Buddhist art?

A) It depicted familial portraits.
B) It depicted religious subjects only.
C) It depicted predominantly secular subjects.
D) It included aphorisms written in Kufic.

Question 7

What innovations from Arabic architecture were introduced by Muslim architects into Mughal architecture?

A) the arch and the viaduct
B) the minaret and the pointed arch
C) the ribbed vault and flying buttresses
D) the slide rule and the leveler

Question 8

What was the principle of satyagraha , which was used to gain Indian independence?

A) non-possessive love
B) non-violent resistance
C) non-resistance
D) non-interference

Question 9

What literary genres became popular during the Ming Dynasty?

A) the novel and the short story
B) the morality play and mythological fables
C) the sonnet and the monologue
D) the novel and haiku

Question 10

Who was the first leader of the Chinese Communist Party?

A) Chiang Kai-shek
B) Lao-tzu
C) Mao Zedong
D) Wang Mang

Question 11

During the Ming Dynasty, what was a popular subject for painters such as Li Kan?

A) portraits
B) nature
C) historical events
D) courtly life

Question 12

The Qing dynasty artist Shitao, who was also a Buddhist monk, experimented with new approaches in which type of art?

A) landscape painting
B) underglazes
C) overglazes
D) wood cuts

Question 13

In which two languages did Munshi Premchand write his novels and short stories?

A) Russian and Urdu
B) Hindi and Farsi
C) Hindi and Urdu
D) English and Farsi

Question 14

What new language (a blending of Hindi, Arabic, and Persian) was created by the scholars of Akbar?

A) Basque
B) Urdu
C) Sanskrit
D) Gaelic

Question 15

Who was the de facto ruler of much of India in the 1600s and 1700s?

A) the Republic of Pakistan
B) the Indian Republic
C) the Mughal Empire
D) the British East India Trading Company

Question 16

What was the name of the section of Beijing containing the residence of the emperor?

A) the Ancient City
B) the Imperial City
C) the Forbidden City
D) the Gate of Heavenly Peace

Question 17

Why did most Chinese view the Qing rulers as foreigners?

A) Because they came from Eastern Europe.
B) Because they came from Manchuria.
C) Because they came from India.
D) Because they came from Burma.

Question 18

Who was the founder of the Mughal Empire in India in 1526?

A) Genghis Khan
B) Chandra Gupta
C) Jahan
D) Babur

Question 19

What novel by Wu Cheng'en (ca. 1510-1580) has a main character named Tripitaka?

A) The Tale of Genji
B) Dragon
C) Monkey
D) The Plum in the Golden Vase

Question 20

Who was the best-known leader of Indian nationalism (from ca. 1915 to 1948)?

A) Mahatma Gandhi
B) Lord Mountbatten
C) Jawaharlal Nehru
D) Manmohan Singh

Question 21

Who directed the Japanese films Rashomon and Seven Samurai ?

A) Murakami
B) Kurosawa
C) Mifune
D) Shiraga

Question 22

The Indian writer Rabindranath Tagore, who also ______________, won the 1913 Nobel Prize for Literature.

A) wrote India's first national anthem
B) conducted research in the Himalayas
C) opposed the independence movement
D) worked as a journalist for a British newspaper

Question 23

Which of these is a Japanese form of drama based on real-life incidents?

A) anime
B) Noh
C) kabuki
D) ronin

Question 24

The 20^th-century Chinese artist Wu Hufan uses the style and scroll format of the traditional landscape to depict what scene or event?

A) the productivity of Chinese workers
B) Mao's ascension to power as leader of the Communist party
C) the first McDonald's restaurant in China
D) the detonation of China's first atomic bomb

Question 25

Describe the history of religious tolerance in India from the Mughal Empire's foundation in 1526 to its end.

Question 26

What were the interests and beliefs of the Progressive Artists' Group in India? When was the group founded?

Question 27

What is the name given to the period of Japanese history during which Hirohito was emperor and World War II occurred?

A) Showa
B) Taisho
C) Meiji
D) Edo

Question 28

What mountain is depicted in Hokusai's famous woodcut Under the Wave off Kanagawa ?

A) Mt. Everest
B) Mt. Tsurugi
C) Mt. Fuji
D) Mt. Wutai

Question 29

Who was a prominent Japanese novelist during the 1600s, whose work often dealt with erotic themes?

A) Kurosawa
B) Hirohito
C) Saikaku
D) Shiraga

Question 30

Who was the greatest poet (1644-1694) of the Edo period?

A) Basho
B) Murasaki
C) Shen Zhou
D) Kurosawa

Question 31

How did the subject matter of the Noh theater compare with the new dramas of kabuki?

Question 32

What led to the First Opium War in China (1839-1842)?

Question 33

What does the Godzilla movie monster have to do with World War II?

Question 34

What is the Japanese verse form that Basho developed?

A) kabuki
B) haiku
C) manga
D) huaben

Question 35

What material used in decorative arts is made from the sap of a sumac tree?

A) underglaze
B) china
C) huaben
D) lacquer

Question 36

During the Ming period, by what name was the Chinese short story known?

A) ci
B) huaben
C) mopheh
D) bamboo words

Question 37

What is the term for a tall, slim tower attached to a mosque?

A) minaret
B) arabesque
C) fortress
D) muezzin

Question 38

Who was the best-known landscape artist to use woodblock technique?

A) Li Kan
B) Zhang Xiaogang
C) Katsushika Hokusai
D) Hirose Yoshikuni

Question 39

The eight virtues of moral behavior to which a samurai must adhere are called the ______ code.

A) bushido
B) ronin
C) Noh
D) shogun

Question 40

A _______ is a member of a Hindu people claiming descent from the warrior caste during the Indian Heroic Age.

A) Gupta
B) Rajput
C) Sultan
D) Sikh