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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 the Emperor required to study?
(a) Classics and poetry.
(b) Sword fighting.
(c) Karate.
(d) Feng Shui.

2. Where did messengers go as the ships were landing?
(a) To Mount Fiji to ask the oracle what to do.
(b) Peking.
(c) Seoul.
(d) Edo.

3. To whom did the Shoguns send a copy of the letter that Commodore Perry brought?
(a) The daimyos.
(b) The Governor of each district.
(c) The Dutch traders.
(d) No one; they did not want the contents to be known.

4. What was the impression of Japan by most of the Americans?
(a) They were barbarians.
(b) They were unreasonable.
(c) They were bloodthirsty.
(d) They were a cultured, civilized nation.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Under what conditions could the Dutch and English trade with the Japanese after the death of Shogun Ieyasu?

2. What did the Shogun do?

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

4. What did Commodore Perry pretend to be?

5. What did the rulers deliberately preserve in Japan?

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