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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When did Spanish Jesuits settle in Japan?
(a) 1877.
(b) 1824.
(c) 1771.
(d) 1549.

3. What did the Japanese have no knowledge of?
(a) How backward their society was.
(b) Modern Medicine.
(c) The value of their goods.
(d) The Industrial Revolution.

4. About how many naval men were aboard the ships?
(a) 560.
(b) 1000.
(c) 150.
(d) 250.

5. Why couldn't the Americans stay in Edo Bay?
(a) They were scaring the fish and depriving the city of food.
(b) They were polluting it.
(c) They were not invited.
(d) It was against Japanese law.

6. What were the Mississippi and Susquehanna?
(a) The two merchant vessels who came along with the military vessels.
(b) Two steamboats.
(c) Two top sailing vessels.
(d) The units deployed with the ships.

7. Who was Komei?
(a) The head priest.
(b) The head of the Emperor's council.
(c) The Shogun to the Emperor.
(d) The Emperor.

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

9. 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.

10. What do the native inhabitants call the two ships?
(a) God's wrath.
(b) The birds of fire.
(c) Alien ships of fire.
(d) The mountains of fire.

11. What did Perry insist upon when the Japanese repeated their request that the Americans go to Nagasaki?
(a) Perry wanted his letter answered first.
(b) They needed a few days to get water and wood.
(c) They could not make it all that far.
(d) They did not want to treat with the Dutch since they were at war with them.

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

13. What did the rulers deliberately preserve in Japan?
(a) Individual freedoms.
(b) Feudalism.
(c) An open policy towards foreigners.
(d) The right of the Emperor to mandate laws.

14. What was the meeting with the Shogun like for the Dutch?
(a) Humiliating.
(b) Informative.
(c) Exciting.
(d) Futile.

15. How did the Army of Japan look?
(a) Like something out of King Arthur's time.
(b) Under equipped.
(c) Extremely well disciplined.
(d) Sloppy and unprepared.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Nakajima?

2. What did the Shogun do?

3. Who was a mere puppet?

4. Who were thought to be ruffians?

5. When was Japan last at war?

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