This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-4, Aliens Arrive, The Black Ships of the Evil Men, His High and Might Mysteriousness, Landing on Sacred Soil (The Audience Hall).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Commodore Perry do when the Japanese tried to board?
(a) Ordered his men to keep them away.
(b) The Japanese did not yet try to board the ships.
(c) Invited them to his quarters.
(d) Ordered his men to help them aboard.

2. What was special about Edo?
(a) It was the largest city in the world at that time.
(b) It had magicians who could work magic to rid the place of the ships.
(c) It was where the largest army in the world was stationed.
(d) It had thousands of underground hallways where many people could hide.

3. What does Commodore Perry have for the Emperor from President Fillmore?
(a) A letter.
(b) A stallion.
(c) A chest of rifles.
(d) A chest of gold.

4. What group has held power for the last seven hundred years?
(a) No one group.
(b) The Ming dynasty.
(c) The Shoguns.
(d) The Komeiri dynasty.

5. What was special about Commodore Perry being received by the Japanese?
(a) His parents had been missionaries to Japan.
(b) He was the first Western ambassador to be received in over two hundred years.
(c) They greeted him with a special designation no other white man had received.
(d) They ignored the Japanese laws against such a meeting.