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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. Where did messengers go as the ships were landing?
(a) Peking.
(b) To Mount Fiji to ask the oracle what to do.
(c) Seoul.
(d) Edo.

2. How many ships were in his sailing party this time?
(a) 2.
(b) 12.
(c) 9.
(d) 4.

3. What was Edo?
(a) The capital of China.
(b) The capital of Japan.
(c) The capital of Korea.
(d) The large city where the ships landed.

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

5. What did the rich shopkeepers live modestly?
(a) So they did not lose their stores to the government.
(b) So as not to engender envy.
(c) They were strict Buddhists.
(d) They were taxed so much, they had little money.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the Japanese and Americans threaten each other?

2. What was the meeting with the Shogun like for the Dutch?

3. Who were thought to be ruffians?

4. What group has held power for the last seven hundred years?

5. What did the Japanese say they would give to the American ships?

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