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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 could merchants buy?
(a) There was a short, prescribed list.
(b) Anything except swords.
(c) Everything.
(d) Into the higher class.

2. When did the Japanese say they would open a harbor?
(a) In five years.
(b) Next year.
(c) Never.
(d) In fifteen years.

3. Who were thought to be ruffians?
(a) The peasants.
(b) The daimyo.
(c) The artisians.
(d) The Ronin samurai.

4. Who was Sam Patch?
(a) Commodore Perry's steward.
(b) The bosun mate on Commodore Perry's ship.
(c) A Japanese American.
(d) The cook for most of the parties.

5. When did the Shogun die?
(a) Ten months after Commodore Perry left.
(b) Five days before Commodore Perry left.
(c) Ten days after Commodore Perry left.
(d) He was still alive the next time Perry went to Japan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Shogun Ieyoshi depressed?

2. What did the people not know existed?

3. What did the groups of five families have to do?

4. What gifts did the Emperor never receive?

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

(see the answer key)

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