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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. How many troops were quickly rallied?
(a) About 100,000
(b) About 29,000.
(c) About 4,000.
(d) About 17,000.

2. Why did Perry's ships avoid getting too close to Edo?
(a) The interpreters and negotiators would be be pressured to commit suicide.
(b) They didn't want the people of Edo to see the smoking ships.
(c) They were forbidden to do so.
(d) They would have gotten stuck on the river's sand.

3. What did the Japanese say they would give to the American ships?
(a) Coal, wood, water and other supplies.
(b) A reasonable time to leave Japanese waters.
(c) A tour of Edo before the Americans left.
(d) They would give them nothing.

4. What did the Japanese do as the Americans passed by?
(a) Booed.
(b) Bowed.
(c) Made clicking noises with their tongues.
(d) Raised their right hands.

5. What did the people of Hakodate give the Americans for the Washington Monument?
(a) An inscribed plaque.
(b) A painting of Mount Fuji.
(c) A haiku poem.
(d) A block of granite.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many ships were in his sailing party this time?

2. What did the people not know existed?

3. Where could consuls and agents from the United States live?

4. What Shoguns ruled Japan when Perry arrived?

5. What is one port that was mentioned as being where the Americans could trade?

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