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Quiz for America Compared: Christianity in the United States and Japan

Question

1. What was the goal of Kinzo Hirai’s address at the 1893 Chicago World’s Columbian Exhibition?

To bring Christian missionaries to Japan to educate, convert, and modernize the Japanese

To reverse the legislation that banned Asian immigrants to the United States

To open free trade relationships between the United States and Japan

To underline the hypocrisy of American policies that discriminated against the Japanese

Correct. The answer is d. Kinzo Hirai’s goal in his address was to emphasize that although the United States was supposed to be a Christian nation, it pursued discriminatory and clearly non-Christian approaches to Japan and the Japanese.

Incorrect. The answer is c. Kinzo Hirai’s goal in his address was to emphasize that although the United States was supposed to be a Christian nation, it pursued discriminatory and clearly non-Christian approaches to Japan and the Japanese.

Question

2. Kinzo Hirai’s address provides evidence for which of the following phenomena?

Americans’ widespread acceptance of ideas associated with eugenics

U.S. Christians’ openness to explicit critiques of Social Darwinism

American Protestants’ strong rejection of nativism and discriminatory immigration laws

Americans’ widespread acceptance of ideas associated with ethnic and religious diversity

Correct. The answer is a. Hirai’s address listed multiple examples of Americans’ maltreatment of and discrimination against Japanese people, both in Japan and in the United States. The anti-Japanese prejudice he described was connected to Americans’ assumptions that the Japanese were a “lower race” that had the potential to dilute whites’ racial purity.

Incorrect. The answer is a. Hirai’s address listed multiple examples of Americans’ maltreatment of and discrimination against Japanese people, both in Japan and in the United States. The anti-Japanese prejudice he described was connected to Americans’ assumptions that the Japanese were a “lower race” that had the potential to dilute whites’ racial purity.