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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. Who in the time that Perry arrived were considered unproductive?
(a) Merchants.
(b) Peasants.
(c) Samurai.
(d) Artisians.

2. What happened when Shogun Ieyasu died in 1616?
(a) Trade was opened to any nation who came.
(b) Being a Christian became punishable by death.
(c) Not much changed.
(d) Trade was completely abandoned.

3. What did those in favor of trade want from the West?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Their knowledge of the natural world.
(c) Their science, industry and wealth from trade.
(d) Their literature and poetry.

4. What did Commodore Perry do when the Japanese tried to board?
(a) Ordered his men to keep them away.
(b) Ordered his men to help them aboard.
(c) Invited them to his quarters.
(d) The Japanese did not yet try to board the ships.

5. About what time did the American ships finally anchor in Edo Bay?
(a) 7 pm.
(b) Midnight.
(c) 5 pm.
(d) About 5 am the next day.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Spanish Jesuits settle in Japan?

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

3. How many families could live there at a time?

4. What was the impression of Japan by most of the Americans?

5. What did Perry insist upon when the Japanese repeated their request that the Americans go to Nagasaki?

(see the answer key)

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