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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. How long did it take the Dutch to travel to see the head Shogun in Edo?
(a) Several days each way.
(b) Two weeks each way.
(c) A month each way.
(d) A week each way.

2. What did many of the daimyos believe?
(a) That the Emperor should rule in favor of trade.
(b) That the Shoguns would benefit by trade.
(c) That the West was inferior and that trade would lead to the victimization of Japan.
(d) That the Americans were inferior to the Europeans.

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

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

5. Who was the first Englishman to arrive in Japan?
(a) Will Adams.
(b) John Jakes.
(c) William Johnson.
(d) Francis Drake.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the Army of Japan look?

2. What did Perry insist upon when the Japanese repeated their request that the Americans go to Nagasaki?

3. What did the rich shopkeepers live modestly?

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

5. What was special about Edo?

(see the answer key)

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