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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 the period in Japan called during the era that Perry arrived?
(a) The Great Uprising.
(b) The Great Peace.
(c) The Great River Ran.
(d) The Sun Peace.

2. Who is Manjiro?
(a) The head Shogun's samurai bodyguard.
(b) A Japanese who spent time in the United States.
(c) The Emperor's son.
(d) The Emperor's brother.

3. How did the Japanese slowly become after the English quit trading?
(a) Extreme isolationist.
(b) More set in their own religion.
(c) More open to foreign trade.
(d) More tolerant of other religions.

4. Who were not even counted in the census?
(a) Untouchables.
(b) Foreigners who married Japanese.
(c) Japanese who married foreigners.
(d) No one.

5. What did Commodore Perry do when the Japanese tried to board?
(a) Ordered his men to keep them away.
(b) Ordered his men to help them aboard.
(c) Invited them to his quarters.
(d) The Japanese did not yet try to board the ships.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happened in Edo when the messengers arrived?

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

4. What did Commodore Perry's ships do while negotiations were proceeding?

5. What stuck the Americans about the Japanese?

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