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

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

3. Of what does Manjiro assure the Shogun?
(a) That Commodore Perry is a high-ranking American.
(b) That the Americans were less agressive than Europeans.
(c) That the Americans were peaceful.
(d) That the Americans did not want Japan's land.

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

5. Where did four enormous ships appear at the beginning of Chapter 1?
(a) Off the coast of Shimoda.
(b) Off the coast of Saipan.
(c) Near Seoul.
(d) Off the coast of Tokyo.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is Manjiro?

3. What did the Japanese find odd about the Americans' eating habits?

4. When did the Japanese say they would open a harbor?

5. When did the Portuguese arrive?

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