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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. Why is Shogun Ieyoshi depressed?
(a) Because he is dying.
(b) Because his wife has just died.
(c) Because he had been ignored.
(d) Because his son has just died.

2. What do the native inhabitants call the two ships?
(a) God's wrath.
(b) Alien ships of fire.
(c) The mountains of fire.
(d) The birds of fire.

3. When was Japan last at war?
(a) 1597.
(b) 1621.
(c) 1799.
(d) 1810.

4. What do many historians think of Manjiro's influence?
(a) He is not mentioned.
(b) Positive.
(c) That it kept Japan isolated for a lot longer than necessary.
(d) That Manjiro was too close to the situation to effect change.

5. What was one of the characteristics of this era in question #73?
(a) The wars kept the food supplies scant.
(b) The arts flourished.
(c) The peasants often were able to move into the upper classes.
(d) There was much fighting among the Shogun families.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Spanish Jesuits settle in Japan?

2. About what percent of the population were farmers in the mid-nineteenth century in Japan?

3. To whom did the Shoguns send a copy of the letter that Commodore Perry brought?

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

5. What did the Japanese who served the Dutch swear?

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