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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-8, The Dutch Island Prison, Foreigners Forbidden, The Great Peace, Clouds Over the Land of the Rising Sun.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the Dutch live while maintaining trade status with the Japanese?
(a) Like slaves.
(b) Frugally but adequately.
(c) Like princes.
(d) In very commodious quarters.

2. How many troops were quickly rallied?
(a) About 100,000
(b) About 29,000.
(c) About 17,000.
(d) About 4,000.

3. What did the groups of five families have to do?
(a) Swear allegience to each other.
(b) Pay seventy percent of all their earnings to the daimyo.
(c) Monitor one another's behavior.
(d) Go to Edo every year for census.

4. What does Commodore Perry have for the Emperor from President Fillmore?
(a) A stallion.
(b) A letter.
(c) A chest of gold.
(d) A chest of rifles.

5. What group has held power for the last seven hundred years?
(a) The Komeiri dynasty.
(b) The Shoguns.
(c) No one group.
(d) The Ming dynasty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are two exports the United States is hoping to gain from Japan?

2. What Shoguns ruled Japan when Perry arrived?

3. Why couldn't the Japanese surround the ships?

4. How did the Army of Japan look?

5. What was the period in Japan called during the era that Perry arrived?

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