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

2. What did many of the daimyos believe?
(a) That the Emperor should rule in favor of trade.
(b) That the Americans were inferior to the Europeans.
(c) That the Shoguns would benefit by trade.
(d) That the West was inferior and that trade would lead to the victimization of Japan.

3. How is the place where the enormous ships appear described?
(a) A mid-sized city.
(b) A large city.
(c) An almost-deserted area where no villages were.
(d) A small fishing village.

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

5. What did the rich shopkeepers live modestly?
(a) So they did not lose their stores to the government.
(b) They were strict Buddhists.
(c) So as not to engender envy.
(d) They were taxed so much, they had little money.

Short Answer Questions

1. What could the samurai do to commoners for disrespect?

2. Under what conditions could the Dutch and English trade with the Japanese after the death of Shogun Ieyasu?

3. Who in the time that Perry arrived were considered unproductive?

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

5. What do many historians think of Manjiro's influence?

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