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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 not know about the Emperor?
(a) He hated Westerners.
(b) He was dead.
(c) He was basically a figurehead.
(d) He was a young boy.

2. Why is Shogun Ieyoshi depressed?
(a) Because he is dying.
(b) Because his wife has just died.
(c) Because he had been ignored.
(d) Because his son has just died.

3. Who was Komei?
(a) The head priest.
(b) The Emperor.
(c) The Shogun to the Emperor.
(d) The head of the Emperor's council.

4. 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) Three days after the fact.
(d) Within hours of the ships' arrival.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are two exports the United States is hoping to gain from Japan?

2. What were the Mississippi and Susquehanna?

3. What was Edo?

4. In what year does the book open?

5. What are two of the ships doing that scares some of the inhabitants?

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