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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 were the Mississippi and Susquehanna?
(a) Two steamboats.
(b) The two merchant vessels who came along with the military vessels.
(c) Two top sailing vessels.
(d) The units deployed with the ships.

2. What do the native inhabitants call the two ships?
(a) God's wrath.
(b) The birds of fire.
(c) The mountains of fire.
(d) Alien ships of fire.

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

4. What were the two ships that were not steamships?
(a) Three-masted ships.
(b) One-masted ships.
(c) Five-masted ships.
(d) Tall ships.

5. How many troops were quickly rallied?
(a) About 17,000.
(b) About 29,000.
(c) About 4,000.
(d) About 100,000

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Commodore Perry pretend to be?

2. What type of structure did Japan have at this time?

3. About what time did the American ships finally anchor in Edo Bay?

4. Where did four enormous ships appear at the beginning of Chapter 1?

5. What was Kayama pretending to be?

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