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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. About how many samurai were there in Japan when Perry arrived?
(a) 12,000.
(b) 100,000.
(c) 210,000.
(d) 350,000.

2. How many people lived in Edo?
(a) Over a million.
(b) About 500,000.
(c) About 44 thousand.
(d) Over 100,000.

3. Why were the feudal lords required to leave their wives and children in Edo?
(a) They did not have to leave them if they did not want to.
(b) As hostages.
(c) So they could learn proper manners.
(d) Because of the lawlessness throughout Japan.

4. What did Commodore Perry not know about the Emperor?
(a) He was a young boy.
(b) He hated Westerners.
(c) He was basically a figurehead.
(d) He was dead.

5. What were the Dutch and formerly Christian Japanese forced to do?
(a) Give up their property rights.
(b) Leave Japan.
(c) Live in small, isolated colonies.
(d) Stamp on Christian symbols to show they no longer believed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What stunned the Japanese about the sailors?

2. About how many naval men were aboard the ships?

3. What does Commodore Perry have for the Emperor from President Fillmore?

4. What was Edo?

5. What do the people wonder that the ships might mysteriously be pushing to shore?

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