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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 is the name of knights in Japan?
(a) Dragons.
(b) Defenders of the Emperor.
(c) Samurai.
(d) Shogun.

2. What gifts did the Emperor never receive?
(a) Any of the clocks.
(b) The grinder.
(c) The whiskey.
(d) The telescope, steam engine or telegraph set.

3. What were the two ships that were not steamships?
(a) Three-masted ships.
(b) Five-masted ships.
(c) One-masted ships.
(d) Tall ships.

4. What show did the Americans present?
(a) The Wild West show.
(b) A minstrel show.
(c) None.
(d) Punch and Judy puppets.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who finally came to one of the parties between the Japanese and Americans?

2. Under what conditions could the Dutch and English trade with the Japanese after the death of Shogun Ieyasu?

3. What do the people wonder that the ships might mysteriously be pushing to shore?

4. How many ships were in his sailing party this time?

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

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