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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 fishermen do as the ships are coming in?
(a) Try to attack the ships.
(b) Try to get a spy on board the ships.
(c) Come to shore quickly.
(d) Set fire to one of the alien ships.

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

3. 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.

4. What are two exports the United States is hoping to gain from Japan?
(a) Fish and jade.
(b) Whale oil and jade.
(c) Coal and whale oil.
(d) Fish and coal.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Commodore Perry not know about the Emperor?

2. Why couldn't the Japanese surround the ships?

3. In what year does the book open?

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

5. Where did messengers go as the ships were landing?

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