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

2. What was Edo?
(a) The large city where the ships landed.
(b) The capital of China.
(c) The capital of Japan.
(d) The capital of Korea.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Commodore Perry have for the Emperor from President Fillmore?

2. What happened in Edo when the messengers arrived?

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

4. How is the place where the enormous ships appear described?

5. What were the Japanese "war correspondents" doing the next morning?

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