ENG 221 Exam 1 Questions with Correct Answers Latest Update 2025/2026
The Love Suicides at Amijima - Answers Chikamatsu Monzaemon
1721
Chikamatsu Monzaemon - Answers "One of the greatest dramatists in the history of Japanese
theater"
Joruri - Answers Narrative music style
Shinju - Answers double suicide
Pure Land Buddhism - Answers Emphasized salvationist aspects of Chinese Buddhism; popular
among masses of Chinese society.
Kabuki - Answers stylized theater
Bunraku - Answers Japanese puppet theater
Edo - Answers Kabuki and Bunraku arose during the ______ Period
1. Samurai
2. Peasants
3. Artisans
4. Merchants - Answers Four social classes related to Japan and Love Suicides
Pleasure quarter - Answers Represents Jihei's desire for Koharu
Jihei's business - Answers Represents the duties expected of Jihei by both his family & society
Place of Suicide - Answers Represents travel from this world to the next
Cutting off their hair - Answers Represents the changing of identities by each of them & lets
them honor their current lives
Tartuffe - Answers Moliere
1664
Tartuffe - Answers Part of the "Enlightenment" Era
Tartuffe - Answers "To sin in private is to not sin at all"
Tartuffe - Answers ________ is mostly of Comedy of Manners
Comedy of Manners - Answers Plays that deal with the social conventions of a sophisticated
The Love Suicides at Amijima - Answers Chikamatsu Monzaemon
1721
Chikamatsu Monzaemon - Answers "One of the greatest dramatists in the history of Japanese
theater"
Joruri - Answers Narrative music style
Shinju - Answers double suicide
Pure Land Buddhism - Answers Emphasized salvationist aspects of Chinese Buddhism; popular
among masses of Chinese society.
Kabuki - Answers stylized theater
Bunraku - Answers Japanese puppet theater
Edo - Answers Kabuki and Bunraku arose during the ______ Period
1. Samurai
2. Peasants
3. Artisans
4. Merchants - Answers Four social classes related to Japan and Love Suicides
Pleasure quarter - Answers Represents Jihei's desire for Koharu
Jihei's business - Answers Represents the duties expected of Jihei by both his family & society
Place of Suicide - Answers Represents travel from this world to the next
Cutting off their hair - Answers Represents the changing of identities by each of them & lets
them honor their current lives
Tartuffe - Answers Moliere
1664
Tartuffe - Answers Part of the "Enlightenment" Era
Tartuffe - Answers "To sin in private is to not sin at all"
Tartuffe - Answers ________ is mostly of Comedy of Manners
Comedy of Manners - Answers Plays that deal with the social conventions of a sophisticated
