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

2. What are two exports the United States is hoping to gain from Japan?
(a) Coal and whale oil.
(b) Fish and jade.
(c) Fish and coal.
(d) Whale oil and jade.

3. What did the Japanese do with the first Englishman to arrive?
(a) They put him in prison for the rest of his life.
(b) Eventually they killed him.
(c) They sent him away.
(d) Made him advisor and a samurai.

4. What were the Dutch and formerly Christian Japanese forced to do?
(a) Give up their property rights.
(b) Live in small, isolated colonies.
(c) Stamp on Christian symbols to show they no longer believed.
(d) Leave Japan.

5. What happened when Shogun Ieyasu died in 1616?
(a) Trade was completely abandoned.
(b) Not much changed.
(c) Trade was opened to any nation who came.
(d) Being a Christian became punishable by death.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Shoguns ruled Japan when Perry arrived?

2. What was the period in Japan called during the era that Perry arrived?

3. What was the smaller of the two swords that a samurai carried used for?

4. On what island did the Dutch reside?

5. Who were thought to be ruffians?

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