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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 was forbidden to the farmers?
(a) Marriage.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Saki and smoking.
(d) Always staying on their land.

2. Of what was Sam Patch afraid?
(a) He would be asked to row to the mainland and be attacked.
(b) He would make an error in protocol.
(c) He would cook something displeasing to the Japanese guests.
(d) Banishment.

3. Under what conditions could the Dutch and English trade with the Japanese after the death of Shogun Ieyasu?
(a) As long as they did not proselytize.
(b) As long as the products was nothing the Japanese produced.
(c) Under no conditions.
(d) As long as the Emperor received 50 percent of the profits.

4. What did Commodore Perry's arrival initiate?
(a) A shutdown of the entire wharf area of Edo.
(b) Weeks of negotiations.
(c) A war between Shoguns.
(d) A shutdown of the entire wharf area of Nagasaki.

5. Who was a mere puppet?
(a) The Emperor.
(b) The most powerful Shogun.
(c) Amaterasu.
(d) The Head of the Council.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Shogun Ieyoshi depressed?

2. Who were not even counted in the census?

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

4. When does the lead shogun learn the news of the arrival of the ships?

5. How many men did Commodore Perry bring with him on this trip?

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