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

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

3. When did the Japanese say they would open a harbor?
(a) In fifteen years.
(b) In five years.
(c) Next year.
(d) Never.

4. Who was Amaterasu?
(a) The moon goddess.
(b) The sun goddess.
(c) The god of the stars.
(d) The sun god.

5. Why did Ido and Toda say nothing at the meeting with Perry?
(a) They did not know English.
(b) They were not authorized to speak for the Emperor.
(c) It is illegal to speak to foreigners.
(d) They did not like Admiral Perry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the native inhabitants call the two ships?

2. What did the merchants fail to do after being in Shimoda for three months?

3. What did the Shogun do?

4. Who was Nakajima?

5. What were the Japanese "war correspondents" doing the next morning?

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