Questions Refer to the Passages Below

question 4

Multiple Choice

Questions refer to the passages below.
"It is the duty of a girl living in her parents' house to practice filial piety toward her father and mother. But after marriage, her duty is to honor her father-in-law and mother-in-law . . . to love and reverence them with all ardor and to tend them with a practice of filial piety. . . . When a husband issues his instructions, the wife must never disobey them. . . . A woman should look upon her husband as if he were Heaven itself and never weary of thinking how she may yield to him and thus escape celestial castigation."
"The Great Learning for Women," Kaibara Ekken, Japanese philosopher, c. 1729
"I love man as my fellow, but his scepter, real or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then, the submission is to reason, and not to man. In fact, the conduct of an accountable being must be regulated by the operations of its own reason; or on what foundation rests the throne of God?"
A Vindication of the Rights of Women, Mary Wollstonecraft, English essayist, 1792
-Kaibara's point of view was MOST likely influenced by which of the following?

• A) Shinto, an indigenous Japanese religion, placed strong belief in kami or spirits.
• B) Christianity brought belief in the power of heaven to Japan in the eighteenth century.
• C) Chinese philosophy, including Confucianism, had a great impact on Japanese culture.
• D) Buddhism, a philosophy that came to Japan from China, placed great value on loyalty to one's lord.

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