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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 do the people wonder that the ships might mysteriously be pushing to shore?
(a) Active volcanoes.
(b) Nothing.
(c) A huge oven of fire.
(d) A raging dragon.

2. How is the place where the enormous ships appear described?
(a) A small fishing village.
(b) An almost-deserted area where no villages were.
(c) A large city.
(d) A mid-sized city.

3. About what percent of the population were farmers in the mid-nineteenth century in Japan?
(a) 25.
(b) 97.
(c) 80.
(d) 50.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Perry decide to move forward with plans to return to Japan?

2. What happened in Edo when the messengers arrived?

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

4. What was the smaller of the two swords that a samurai carried used for?

5. Why is Shogun Ieyoshi depressed?

(see the answer key)

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