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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. How large was the island?
(a) 200 yards by 80 yards.
(b) 4000 yards by 500 yards.
(c) 1000 yards by 1000 yards.
(d) 600 yards by 120 yards.

2. What were the Japanese "war correspondents" doing the next morning?
(a) Drawing pictures of the officers in charge.
(b) Waiting by one American ship for permission to board.
(c) Drawing pictures of the ships.
(d) Interviewing some of the lower-ranked officers.

3. What is the name of knights in Japan?
(a) Dragons.
(b) Shogun.
(c) Defenders of the Emperor.
(d) Samurai.

4. What were the two ships that were not steamships?
(a) Three-masted ships.
(b) One-masted ships.
(c) Tall ships.
(d) Five-masted ships.

5. Who were thought to be ruffians?
(a) The daimyo.
(b) The Ronin samurai.
(c) The artisians.
(d) The peasants.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the first Englishman to arrive in Japan?

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

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

4. When could the Dutch leave the island?

5. What did Commodore Perry do when the Japanese tried to board?

(see the answer key)

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