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1. In what year does the book open?

1853.

2. Where did four enormous ships appear at the beginning of Chapter 1?

Off the coast of Shimoda.

3. How is the place where the enormous ships appear described?

A small fishing village.

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

Come to shore quickly.

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

Streaming smoke.

6. What do the native inhabitants call the two ships?

Alien ships of fire.

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