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

2. With what are the Americans impressed?
(a) The strict protocol they followed.
(b) The numbers of their army.
(c) How kind the Japanese people are.
(d) The beauty of the city from the harbor.

3. About what time did the American ships finally anchor in Edo Bay?
(a) About 5 am the next day.
(b) Midnight.
(c) 7 pm.
(d) 5 pm.

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

5. What were the Japanese "war correspondents" doing the next morning?
(a) Waiting by one American ship for permission to board.
(b) Drawing pictures of the ships.
(c) Drawing pictures of the officers in charge.
(d) Interviewing some of the lower-ranked officers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Kayama pretending to be?

2. In what year does the book open?

3. What happened in Edo when the messengers arrived?

4. What is the name of knights in Japan?

5. What were the Mississippi and Susquehanna?

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