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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where could consuls and agents from the United States live?
2. What did the Emperor do after 1872?
3. What did Commodore Perry's ships do while negotiations were proceeding?
4. What would be built at the place where the Americans landed?
5. Where did the Japanese want the Americans to land?
Short Essay Questions
1. What were some of the squadron members permitted to do?
2. Describe the exchange between Perry and the Japanese about shipwrecked sailors.
3. Where did the Commodore and staff go and what bothered the Commodore about the women there?
4. What sort of gifts did the Americans give the higher ranked Japanese?
5. What was Hokkaido like and how did the first contact with them go for the Americans?
6. How did the two cultures meet face to face and what did the people of the two countries think of the other?
7. How did the Americans impress the Japanese as the Americans came ashore?
8. What were some of the impacts of the treaty signing between the Americans and the Japanese?
9. How did the Japanese believe they had saved face, but did they really?
10. What did Commodore Perry say to the Japanese about wanting a treaty and the consequences of not getting one?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Japan had maintained a fairly rigid policy of isolationism for many years before Commodore Perry arrived, except for a brief period of more openness in the 1500s. Discuss the following:
1. What does the term isolationism mean in context of a country's foreign policy?
2. Discuss three reasons the ruling class of Japan may have had to maintain a policy of isolationism.
3. Discuss three reasons you think the policy of isolationism was not beneficial to the Japanese people.
4. Do you think in this century (end of first decade of 21st century), it is possible for
Essay Topic 2
The Dutch were the only regular trading partners of the Japanese and they basically lived like slaves. They submitted to Japanese control in order to gain the enormous profits that came from Japanese trade. Discuss the following:
1. Do you think the Dutch paid too high a price for their "enormous profits"? Explain your answer.
2. How do you think the Japanese thought of the Dutch? Do you think the Japanese respected the Dutch? Why or why not?
3. Many corporations today are accused of making profit the "bottom line." What do you think that means? Do you agree?
4. Would you work for a company whose open or implied philosophy was "profit at any cost"? Why or why not.
Essay Topic 3
Rhoda Blumberg has tried as much as possible to use historical events and facts around which to weave her work of fiction. Discuss the following:
1. Do you think The Hundred Days qualifies as an Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun? Why or why not?
2. If much of the events in the book are historical, what surprises you about the way the people, technology, ideas, etc... are portrayed?
3. Are the Americans more or less advanced than you pictured for the mid -1800s? Explain with examples. Are the Japanese more or less advanced than you pictured for the mid -1800s? Explain with examples.
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