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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 are the American ships ordered to do?
(a) Pay for the opportunity to see the Emperor.
(b) Go to Nagasaki and use the Dutch as go-betweens.
(c) Return to the United States immediately.
(d) Wait until the Emperor summoned them.

2. How is the place where the enormous ships appear described?
(a) A mid-sized city.
(b) An almost-deserted area where no villages were.
(c) A small fishing village.
(d) A large city.

3. In what year does the book open?
(a) 1833.
(b) 1788.
(c) 1901.
(d) 1853.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What stunned the Japanese about the sailors?

2. How did the Dutch live while maintaining trade status with the Japanese?

3. What was the Emperor required to study?

4. What are two of the ships doing that scares some of the inhabitants?

5. How long did it take the Dutch to travel to see the head Shogun in Edo?

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