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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 Emperor do after 1872?
(a) Had American advisers.
(b) Visited the United States.
(c) Wore western clothing.
(d) Took an American wife.

2. What did Commodore Perry say could start a war?
(a) The Japanese fishing in American waters without paying a tariff.
(b) Cruel treatment of shipwrecked sailors.
(c) The Japanese treating with other countries and not the United States.
(d) The Japanese refusing to rescue shipwrecked sailors in their waters.

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

4. In what year does the book open?
(a) 1853.
(b) 1833.
(c) 1788.
(d) 1901.

5. Why couldn't the Japanese surround the ships?
(a) They did not have enough manpower.
(b) They could not outrun the ships.
(c) They didn't want to surround the burning ships and catch their ships on fire.
(d) They didn't have any war ships of their own.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the Dutch submit to such control by the Japanese?

2. Why did Ido and Toda say nothing at the meeting with Perry?

3. How many families could live there at a time?

4. What was a geographical characteristic of Shimoda?

5. What happened in Edo when the messengers arrived?

(see the answer key)

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