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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 happened when Shogun Ieyasu died in 1616?
(a) Not much changed.
(b) Trade was completely abandoned.
(c) Trade was opened to any nation who came.
(d) Being a Christian became punishable by death.

2. What did Commodore Perry still not understand even after help from the Dutch?
(a) Why the other countries gave up on trading with the Japanese.
(b) The cultural and social structure of the Japanese.
(c) Who the Emperor favored.
(d) Why the Dutch did not resist the strictly-regulated relations with the Japanese.

3. Who comprised the lower class in the cities?
(a) The priests.
(b) The untouchables.
(c) The house servants.
(d) Artisans and merchants and craftsmen.

4. What was Edo?
(a) The capital of Korea.
(b) The capital of Japan.
(c) The capital of China.
(d) The large city where the ships landed.

5. What was the Emperor required to study?
(a) Sword fighting.
(b) Classics and poetry.
(c) Karate.
(d) Feng Shui.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Japanese do with the first Englishman to arrive?

2. How many troops were quickly rallied?

3. What are two of the ships doing that scares some of the inhabitants?

4. About what time did the American ships finally anchor in Edo Bay?

5. What did many of the daimyos believe?

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