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

2. What did the rich shopkeepers live modestly?
(a) They were taxed so much, they had little money.
(b) They were strict Buddhists.
(c) So they did not lose their stores to the government.
(d) So as not to engender envy.

3. On what island did the Dutch reside?
(a) Deshima.
(b) Hokkaidō.
(c) Kyūshū.
(d) Honshū.

4. Why is Shogun Ieyoshi depressed?
(a) Because his son has just died.
(b) Because he had been ignored.
(c) Because his wife has just died.
(d) Because he is dying.

5. When does the lead shogun learn the news of the arrival of the ships?
(a) They do not tell him at all because he is dying.
(b) Within hours of the ships' arrival.
(c) The messenger went right to him.
(d) Three days after the fact.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are two exports the United States is hoping to gain from Japan?

2. Why did Ido and Toda say nothing at the meeting with Perry?

3. What stunned the Japanese about the sailors?

4. Who is Manjiro?

5. What did the groups of five families have to do?

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