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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 was another reason Perry was happy with the treaty?
(a) He was allowed to visit Edo and talk with the Emperor.
(b) He was named as advisor to the Emperor.
(c) He had a foot in the door to bring Japan into the community of nations.
(d) His decendants were named as "Friends of Japan."

2. When did the Shogun end relations with the Spanish and Portuguese?
(a) Never.
(b) About ten years after they arrived.
(c) When they were at war with England.
(d) When Commodore Perry arrived.

3. What did the Japanese say about shipwrecked American sailors?
(a) They would be confined but not killed.
(b) Nothing.
(c) They would be transported to the closest American ally.
(d) They would be treated well.

4. What was one thing that amazed the botantist Morrow?
(a) The size of the Japanese grapes.
(b) The number of hybrid plants the Japanese had developed.
(c) The size of the Japanese apples.
(d) The Japanese irrigation system.

5. When does the lead shogun learn the news of the arrival of the ships?
(a) They do not tell him at all because he is dying.
(b) The messenger went right to him.
(c) Within hours of the ships' arrival.
(d) Three days after the fact.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the Dutch live while maintaining trade status with the Japanese?

2. What stunned the Japanese about the sailors?

3. Who was Abigail Jernegan?

4. What are the American ships ordered to do?

5. What do the fishermen do as the ships are coming in?

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