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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 are two of the ships doing that scares some of the inhabitants?
(a) Firing muskets.
(b) Shooting cannons.
(c) Waving flags.
(d) Streaming smoke.

2. Who were not even counted in the census?
(a) Untouchables.
(b) Japanese who married foreigners.
(c) No one.
(d) Foreigners who married Japanese.

3. How many people lived in Edo?
(a) Over 100,000.
(b) Over a million.
(c) About 44 thousand.
(d) About 500,000.

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

5. What did the Shogun do?
(a) Protected the nation.
(b) Carried out the Emperor's orders.
(c) Dispensed justice.
(d) Not much; it was mainly a ceremonial rank.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the Mississippi and Susquehanna?

2. Why did the Dutch submit to such control by the Japanese?

3. On what island did the Dutch reside?

4. When could the Dutch leave the island?

5. What was Kayama pretending to be?

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