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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-8, The Dutch Island Prison, Foreigners Forbidden, The Great Peace, Clouds Over the Land of the Rising Sun.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did the rulers deliberately preserve in Japan?
(a) Feudalism.
(b) Individual freedoms.
(c) An open policy towards foreigners.
(d) The right of the Emperor to mandate laws.

3. What did the rich shopkeepers live modestly?
(a) They were strict Buddhists.
(b) So they did not lose their stores to the government.
(c) So as not to engender envy.
(d) They were taxed so much, they had little money.

4. How did the Japanese slowly become after the English quit trading?
(a) Extreme isolationist.
(b) More tolerant of other religions.
(c) More open to foreign trade.
(d) More set in their own religion.

5. Of what does Manjiro assure the Shogun?
(a) That the Americans were less agressive than Europeans.
(b) That Commodore Perry is a high-ranking American.
(c) That the Americans were peaceful.
(d) That the Americans did not want Japan's land.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is illegal for the Emperor to do without permission of the government?

2. What was special about Commodore Perry being received by the Japanese?

3. What did the Japanese have no knowledge of?

4. What did the groups of five families have to do?

5. What did those in favor of trade want from the West?

(see the answer key)

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