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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-4, Aliens Arrive, The Black Ships of the Evil Men, His High and Might Mysteriousness, Landing on Sacred Soil (The Audience Hall).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Commodore Perry not know about the Emperor?
(a) He was basically a figurehead.
(b) He hated Westerners.
(c) He was dead.
(d) He was a young boy.

2. What do the people wonder that the ships might mysteriously be pushing to shore?
(a) Nothing.
(b) A huge oven of fire.
(c) A raging dragon.
(d) Active volcanoes.

3. What group has held power for the last seven hundred years?
(a) No one group.
(b) The Shoguns.
(c) The Komeiri dynasty.
(d) The Ming dynasty.

4. When does the lead shogun learn the news of the arrival of the ships?
(a) Within hours of the ships' arrival.
(b) They do not tell him at all because he is dying.
(c) Three days after the fact.
(d) The messenger went right to him.

5. Who was a mere puppet?
(a) The Head of the Council.
(b) Amaterasu.
(c) The Emperor.
(d) The most powerful Shogun.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the fishermen do as the ships are coming in?

2. When was Japan last at war?

3. What did Perry insist upon when the Japanese repeated their request that the Americans go to Nagasaki?

4. What was the impression of Japan by most of the Americans?

5. What did Commodore Perry do when the Japanese tried to board?

(see the answer key)

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