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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 special about Commodore Perry being received by the Japanese?
(a) They ignored the Japanese laws against such a meeting.
(b) He was the first Western ambassador to be received in over two hundred years.
(c) His parents had been missionaries to Japan.
(d) They greeted him with a special designation no other white man had received.

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

3. What happened in Edo when the messengers arrived?
(a) The people all calmly gathered to pray.
(b) The Emperor decided to go meet the ships.
(c) The city fell into chaos.
(d) The Emperor dispatches a huge army to meet the ships.

4. Who is Manjiro?
(a) The head Shogun's samurai bodyguard.
(b) A Japanese who spent time in the United States.
(c) The Emperor's brother.
(d) The Emperor's son.

5. Why couldn't the Japanese surround the ships?
(a) They didn't want to surround the burning ships and catch their ships on fire.
(b) They could not outrun the ships.
(c) They didn't have any war ships of their own.
(d) They did not have enough manpower.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many troops were quickly rallied?

2. What was Edo?

3. What did the Sumo wrestlers do to demonstrate their strength?

4. When did the Shogun die?

5. What did the Japanese do with the first Englishman to arrive?

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