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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. What are two of the ships doing that scares some of the inhabitants?
(a) Waving flags.
(b) Firing muskets.
(c) Shooting cannons.
(d) Streaming smoke.

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

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

4. Why couldn't the Japanese surround the ships?
(a) They could not outrun the ships.
(b) They did not have enough manpower.
(c) They didn't want to surround the burning ships and catch their ships on fire.
(d) They didn't have any war ships of their own.

5. What was forbidden to the farmers?
(a) Always staying on their land.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Saki and smoking.
(d) Marriage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was one of the main missions of Commodore Perry's trip to Japan?

2. Who was Komei?

3. Under what conditions could the Dutch and English trade with the Japanese after the death of Shogun Ieyasu?

4. What was the meeting with the Shogun like for the Dutch?

5. Who was Nakajima?

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