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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. What was the Japanese contact with the outside world prior to the 17th century?
(a) The outside world had not yet discovered Japan.
(b) More open and they traded with a number of countries.
(c) Totally closed.
(d) The author does not say.

2. Why did the Dutch submit to such control by the Japanese?
(a) They were foreigners in a foreign land and did not want to offend.
(b) The Japanese didn't try to control the Dutch overly much.
(c) To gain the enormous profits of trade with them.
(d) They believed the Japanese would continue to give them a monopoly.

3. What were the two ships that were not steamships?
(a) Tall ships.
(b) One-masted ships.
(c) Five-masted ships.
(d) Three-masted ships.

4. What type of structure did Japan have at this time?
(a) Monarchy.
(b) Dictatorship.
(c) Constitutional monarchy.
(d) Feudal.

5. What are two exports the United States is hoping to gain from Japan?
(a) Whale oil and jade.
(b) Fish and jade.
(c) Fish and coal.
(d) Coal and whale oil.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was one of the characteristics of this era in question #73?

3. What was the smaller of the two swords that a samurai carried used for?

4. What is illegal for the Emperor to do without permission of the government?

5. What were the rumors about devils with white faces?

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