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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-8, The Dutch Island Prison, Foreigners Forbidden, The Great Peace, Clouds Over the Land of the Rising Sun.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the Japanese slowly become after the English quit trading?
(a) Extreme isolationist.
(b) More open to foreign trade.
(c) More set in their own religion.
(d) More tolerant of other religions.

2. What did the Japanese who served the Dutch swear?
(a) A blood oath not to become friendly towards the traders.
(b) Not to give away any of the traders secrets.
(c) To protect the traders with their lives.
(d) None.

3. Where did four enormous ships appear at the beginning of Chapter 1?
(a) Near Seoul.
(b) Off the coast of Saipan.
(c) Off the coast of Tokyo.
(d) Off the coast of Shimoda.

4. What were the Dutch and formerly Christian Japanese forced to do?
(a) Stamp on Christian symbols to show they no longer believed.
(b) Live in small, isolated colonies.
(c) Give up their property rights.
(d) Leave Japan.

5. On what island did the Dutch reside?
(a) Deshima.
(b) Honshū.
(c) Hokkaidō.
(d) Kyūshū.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the smaller of the two swords that a samurai carried used for?

2. How many troops were quickly rallied?

3. What was the period in Japan called during the era that Perry arrived?

4. What was one of the characteristics of this era in question #73?

5. How many people lived in Edo?

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