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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 was special about Commodore Perry being received by the Japanese?
(a) His parents had been missionaries to Japan.
(b) He was the first Western ambassador to be received in over two hundred years.
(c) They ignored the Japanese laws against such a meeting.
(d) They greeted him with a special designation no other white man had received.

2. What did the groups of five families have to do?
(a) Monitor one another's behavior.
(b) Go to Edo every year for census.
(c) Swear allegience to each other.
(d) Pay seventy percent of all their earnings to the daimyo.

3. What was handed to Commodore Perry?
(a) A ceremonial sword.
(b) A gold statue of the Buddha.
(c) A scroll with a reply to President Fillmore's letter.
(d) Three ceremonial calligraphy pens.

4. What was one of the main missions of Commodore Perry's trip to Japan?
(a) To find out if the Japanese still existed.
(b) Information gathering.
(c) Adventure.
(d) To recruit the famous Japanese warriors.

5. What did the Japanese do as the Americans passed by?
(a) Bowed.
(b) Raised their right hands.
(c) Booed.
(d) Made clicking noises with their tongues.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Sumo wrestlers do to demonstrate their strength?

2. What were the two ships that were not steamships?

3. Where did Commodore Perry and the Japanese decide that the Americans could land?

4. Who returned to negotiate with Commodore Perry?

5. When does the lead shogun learn the news of the arrival of the ships?

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