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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. Why did the Dutch submit to such control by the Japanese?
(a) The Japanese didn't try to control the Dutch overly much.
(b) To gain the enormous profits of trade with them.
(c) They believed the Japanese would continue to give them a monopoly.
(d) They were foreigners in a foreign land and did not want to offend.

2. About how many samurai were there in Japan when Perry arrived?
(a) 210,000.
(b) 12,000.
(c) 350,000.
(d) 100,000.

3. How many families could live there at a time?
(a) 12.
(b) 50.
(c) 38.
(d) 122.

4. What was special about Edo?
(a) It had magicians who could work magic to rid the place of the ships.
(b) It had thousands of underground hallways where many people could hide.
(c) It was where the largest army in the world was stationed.
(d) It was the largest city in the world at that time.

5. When does the lead shogun learn the news of the arrival of the ships?
(a) They do not tell him at all because he is dying.
(b) The messenger went right to him.
(c) Three days after the fact.
(d) Within hours of the ships' arrival.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Perry insist upon when the Japanese repeated their request that the Americans go to Nagasaki?

2. What does Commodore Perry have for the Emperor from President Fillmore?

3. On what island did the Dutch reside?

4. What type of structure did Japan have at this time?

5. What did Commodore Perry still not understand even after help from the Dutch?

(see the answer key)

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