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

2. Why did Commodore Perry bring many gifts on his ships?
(a) To win over the Japanese.
(b) He planned to treat with the Chinese if the treaty did not go well with the Japanese.
(c) He planned to stop in several other countries to obtain treaties and wanted gifts for all of them.
(d) In case a treaty was signed.

3. What did the Japanese have no knowledge of?
(a) The Industrial Revolution.
(b) The value of their goods.
(c) Modern Medicine.
(d) How backward their society was.

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

5. What did the Japanese who served the Dutch swear?
(a) A blood oath not to become friendly towards the traders.
(b) To protect the traders with their lives.
(c) None.
(d) Not to give away any of the traders secrets.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people lived in Edo?

2. What do the fishermen do as the ships are coming in?

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

4. In what year does the book open?

5. What did Commodore Perry say could start a war?

(see the answer key)

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