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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 do the people wonder that the ships might mysteriously be pushing to shore?
(a) A huge oven of fire.
(b) Active volcanoes.
(c) A raging dragon.
(d) Nothing.

2. With what are the Americans impressed?
(a) The strict protocol they followed.
(b) The beauty of the city from the harbor.
(c) The numbers of their army.
(d) How kind the Japanese people are.

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

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

5. What did the people not know existed?
(a) Steamboats.
(b) Other lands.
(c) Caucasians.
(d) Ships that could sail so close to land.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Commodore Perry have for the Emperor from President Fillmore?

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

3. Who was Nakajima?

4. Why is Shogun Ieyoshi depressed?

5. How many people lived in Edo?

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