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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9-12, The Black Ships Return, The Treaty House, An Array of Gifts, The Grand Banquet.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of knights in Japan?
(a) Dragons.
(b) Shogun.
(c) Defenders of the Emperor.
(d) Samurai.

2. What were the two ships that were not steamships?
(a) Three-masted ships.
(b) Five-masted ships.
(c) Tall ships.
(d) One-masted ships.

3. What could the samurai do to commoners for disrespect?
(a) Whip them.
(b) Fine them.
(c) Kill them on the spot.
(d) Imprison them for set times.

4. What could merchants buy?
(a) Into the higher class.
(b) There was a short, prescribed list.
(c) Anything except swords.
(d) Everything.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Shogun end relations with the Spanish and Portuguese?

2. Who was Amaterasu?

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

4. When did the Shogun die?

5. Where did the Japanese want the Americans to land?

(see the answer key)

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