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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 was the impression of Japan by most of the Americans?
(a) They were bloodthirsty.
(b) They were a cultured, civilized nation.
(c) They were unreasonable.
(d) They were barbarians.

2. What were the Dutch and formerly Christian Japanese forced to do?
(a) Stamp on Christian symbols to show they no longer believed.
(b) Leave Japan.
(c) Live in small, isolated colonies.
(d) Give up their property rights.

3. How did the Dutch live while maintaining trade status with the Japanese?
(a) In very commodious quarters.
(b) Frugally but adequately.
(c) Like princes.
(d) Like slaves.

4. What type of structure did Japan have at this time?
(a) Constitutional monarchy.
(b) Feudal.
(c) Monarchy.
(d) Dictatorship.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Japanese do with the first Englishman to arrive?

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

3. What do the native inhabitants call the two ships?

4. What did many of the daimyos believe?

5. What did the rulers deliberately preserve in Japan?

(see the answer key)

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