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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 Shoguns ruled Japan when Perry arrived?
(a) The Ieyasu Shoguns.
(b) The Yoshinaki Shoguns.
(c) The Tokugawa Shoguns.
(d) The Kamakura Shoguns.

2. What was the smaller of the two swords that a samurai carried used for?
(a) Ritual suicide.
(b) Ceremonies.
(c) To display their rank.
(d) Eating and cutting.

3. What was the period in Japan called during the era that Perry arrived?
(a) The Great Uprising.
(b) The Sun Peace.
(c) The Great Peace.
(d) The Great River Ran.

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

5. When did Spanish Jesuits settle in Japan?
(a) 1549.
(b) 1824.
(c) 1771.
(d) 1877.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does the book open?

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

3. Where did four enormous ships appear at the beginning of Chapter 1?

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

5. What was forbidden to the farmers?

(see the answer key)

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