The samurai
a. were a hereditary warrior class in medieval Japan recruited in Manchuria and Siberia.
b. were similar to medieval European knights.
c. were the oath-pledged military retainers of the shogun, constituting a formal national army.
d. took oaths of poverty, chastity, and obedience before their formal investiture.
e. were recruited from the peasant class.
Question 2
The Japanese word that refers to the divine wind of the massive typhoon that destroyed the invading Mongol fleet of Khubilai Khan is
a. sayonara.
b. shogun.
c. bakufu.
d. kamikaze.
e. daimyo.
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