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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 forbidden to the farmers?
(a) Always staying on their land.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Saki and smoking.
(d) Nothing.

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

3. Who is Manjiro?
(a) A Japanese who spent time in the United States.
(b) The Emperor's brother.
(c) The head Shogun's samurai bodyguard.
(d) The Emperor's son.

4. What is the name of knights in Japan?
(a) Samurai.
(b) Shogun.
(c) Defenders of the Emperor.
(d) Dragons.

5. What did the Japanese have no knowledge of?
(a) The Industrial Revolution.
(b) How backward their society was.
(c) Modern Medicine.
(d) The value of their goods.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was special about Commodore Perry being received by the Japanese?

2. What was the impression of Japan by most of the Americans?

3. Why did the Dutch submit to such control by the Japanese?

4. What did the Shogun do?

5. What do many historians think of Manjiro's influence?

(see the answer key)

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