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

2. What were the Mississippi and Susquehanna?
(a) The two merchant vessels who came along with the military vessels.
(b) Two steamboats.
(c) The units deployed with the ships.
(d) Two top sailing vessels.

3. What is illegal for the Emperor to do without permission of the government?
(a) Leave the palace.
(b) Order an execution.
(c) Sign a law.
(d) Get married.

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

5. What could merchants buy?
(a) Everything.
(b) Anything except swords.
(c) Into the higher class.
(d) There was a short, prescribed list.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Kayama pretending to be?

2. What did the rich shopkeepers live modestly?

3. What did the Japanese have no knowledge of?

4. What was the meeting with the Shogun like for the Dutch?

5. What did Commodore Perry pretend to be?

(see the answer key)

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