The Meiji Restoration eliminated the status system practiced during the Tokugawa era and ended the privileges of which social class?
A. the samurai
B. merchants
C. artisans
D. farmers
E. the Burakumin
Q. 2One reason that the women's movement in Europe is not as strongly developed as in the United States is because
a. European women go to church more often than their American counterparts.
b. Marxist parties have usurped and successfully represented women's issues.
c. European welfare states have and are providing many things already, giving European women less reason to get organized.
d. European women are highly individualistic and social-harmony oriented.
e. none of the above.
Q. 3Which of the following gave the LDP the opportunity to use its control of the national government to create major advantages for itself?
A. the confederal system of theocratic rule
B. the powerful judiciary
C. the weak bureaucracy
D. single-party governments for a considerably long period
E. the presence of checks and balances in Japan's institutional structure
Q. 4Which of the following represent Japan's largest minority group, of approximately 23 million people, who despite looking exactly like the other Japanese tend to face significant discrimination?
A. the Shinto
B. Buddhists
C. the Burakumin
D. Christians
E. Hindus
Q. 5In Switzerland, the right to vote for women was introduced in
a. 1920.
b. 1848.
c. 1989.
d. 1971.
e. 2000.
Q. 6________ is an indigenous religion of Japan that involves informal prayer to multiple gods at tiny shrines and focuses on the preservation of purity and life in human society and nature.
A. Manichaeism
B. Buddhism
C. Shinto
D. Burakumin
E. Taoism
Q. 7A high degree of ________ made it difficult to form a political opposition to the LDP.
A. ethnic differences
B. socio-cultural homogeneity
C. religious differences
D. economic class heterogeneity
E. racial differences
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