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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13-16, The Treaty, Excursions on Land and Sea, Shore Leave, In the Wake of the Black Ships, Afterword.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were the Dutch and formerly Christian Japanese forced to do?
(a) Live in small, isolated colonies.
(b) Leave Japan.
(c) Give up their property rights.
(d) Stamp on Christian symbols to show they no longer believed.

2. Where did Commodore Perry and the Japanese decide that the Americans could land?
(a) Harboro.
(b) Kanagawa.
(c) Fukuri.
(d) Nagasaki.

3. What did the Americans undervalue of the Japanese gifts?
(a) Swords.
(b) Canaries.
(c) Poems from famous Japanese poets.
(d) Silks and porcelein.

4. What will the U.S. get compared to other nations in the future?
(a) First right of refusal above other nations in goods offered.
(b) Any privilege other nations receive, the U.S. will also receive.
(c) First chance at new trade ports.
(d) Only the Dutch and Russian would be ahead of the U.S.

5. When did the Japanese and Commodore Perry sign a treaty?
(a) July 22.
(b) July 9.
(c) April 30.
(d) March 31st.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what percent of the population were farmers in the mid-nineteenth century in Japan?

2. Who was Amaterasu?

3. What bothered Perry about the women?

4. About how many naval men were aboard the ships?

5. How did the Japanese and Americans threaten each other?

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