JA 23 Midterm Practice Questions

What is shonen manga?

Manga created primarily for boys

What is josei manga?

Manga created primarily for adult women

What is jido manga?

Manga created primarily for young children

What is shojo manga?

Manga created primarily for girls

What is seinen manga?

Manga created primarily for adult men

According to the article, what characteristics of manga allows the reader to "sustain interest for several dozen volumes"?

The sense of familiarity and ambiguity.

What is the title of the longest running girl's manga in Japan cited in this article?

Glass Mask

About how many years has this longest running girl's manga series run as of the date of the article?

30 Years

How does this article describe the way Japanese culture influences others, as opposed to how the US culture does? Japanese culture.....

Seeps under the door

Where is Mt. Fuji located?

Honshu

The latitude of Japan's northernmost islands are located at about the same as that of ___.

the north U.S. border on the east coast

The latitude of Japan's southernmost islands are located at about the same as that of

the southern U.S. border on the east coast

There are ___ main islands in Japan.

Four

The warm Ocean currents warm up the ____ side of the Japanese islands and those near the Korean straits.

Pacific

There is a rainy season in early _____

Summer

Where is the capital city of Tokyo located?

Honshu

Mt. Fuji is a dormant volcano, which last erupted about ____ years ago.

300

Which island is the largest of the four main islands of Japan?

Honshu

The mountains of Japan contain ___ percent of the world's most active volcanoes.

10

The capital, Tôkyô, is in a similar position to ____ in the United States in terms of latitude.

San Luis Obispo, California

Typhoons hit parts of the country every year during late ___.

Summer

Where do students eat lunch?

Classroom

Please enter the number of years for each (Elementary-Uni + CE)

Elementary: 6 Middle: 3 High School: 3 University: 4 Compulsory Education: 9

Entrance examination is typically required for a public (check all that apply):

High School and University

What is Shodo?

Calligraphy

What is go?

A strategic board game

What is Haiku?

A form of poetry

What are student's jobs at school?

Clean classroom and serve lunch

How do children in public schools typically get to and from school?

Walk

How do students in private school typically get to and from school?

Take public transportation

Japanese children enter the first grade of elementary school in _____ after their 6th birthday.

Spring

What is Toba-e?

"funnies" pictures are exaggerated in both form and movement - Pictures in the tradition of the Animal Scroll

What is The Legends of Mt. Shigi?

Fantasy Content with narrative sequencing

The Animal Scroll

Comically drawn non human characters used for satires of contemporary society

Ukiyo-e

"picture of the floating world." - The pop culture accepted as the main stream culture

Rakuten Kitazawa

Use of manga to increase newspaper circulation

George Bigot

Narrative sequencing on a magazine page

Charles Wirgman

Use of speech bubbles

Hokusai Katsushika

One of the first artists to use the word "Manga"

The climate of Hokkaido and the Sea of Japan coast is ____.

Colder

Japan's area is comparable to that of _____.

California

What is Choju Giga?

The Animal Scroll

What is Nishiki-e?

Multi-colored prints

What is Emakimono?

Picture scrolls

What is "En No Shita"?

The tradition of raised floor buildings dates back to the prehistoric era. AND Behind-the-scene supportive works of often unrecognized ordinary people.

The rainy season is important for the cultivation of ___, Japan's traditional staple food.

Rice

Japan is an archipelago, consisting of several ________ of islands.

thousands

According to this text, the main Japanese islands are ___ times farther away from the closest continent than the Great Britain is from the European continent.

6?

What is the climate of Okinawa?

Semi-tropical

What is Horyuji?

The name of the temple with the oldest wooden structure

Which part of Japan does not have a rainy season?

Hokkaido

How much of the Japan's land area is mountains?

70%

What is Kibyoshi?

Yellow Jacket (Book)

What is Ponchi-e?

Pictures in the tradition of the Japan Punch

What is Shigisan Engi Emaki?

one of the oldest surviving picture scrolls