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

2. What were the Japanese "war correspondents" doing the next morning?
(a) Interviewing some of the lower-ranked officers.
(b) Drawing pictures of the officers in charge.
(c) Drawing pictures of the ships.
(d) Waiting by one American ship for permission to board.

3. What warned people to flee?
(a) The men who got off the ship.
(b) Temple bells ringing.
(c) The priests of the temple.
(d) The local militia.

4. What type of structure did Japan have at this time?
(a) Dictatorship.
(b) Monarchy.
(c) Constitutional monarchy.
(d) Feudal.

5. What did Commodore Perry say could start a war?
(a) The Japanese fishing in American waters without paying a tariff.
(b) The Japanese treating with other countries and not the United States.
(c) Cruel treatment of shipwrecked sailors.
(d) The Japanese refusing to rescue shipwrecked sailors in their waters.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom did the Shoguns send a copy of the letter that Commodore Perry brought?

2. What were the rumors about devils with white faces?

3. Who returned to negotiate with Commodore Perry?

4. What might the people resist upon Perry's next return?

5. What do many historians think of Manjiro's influence?

(see the answer key)

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