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 special about Edo?
(a) It had thousands of underground hallways where many people could hide.
(b) It was the largest city in the world at that time.
(c) It was where the largest army in the world was stationed.
(d) It had magicians who could work magic to rid the place of the ships.

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

3. Why did the Dutch submit to such control by the Japanese?
(a) They believed the Japanese would continue to give them a monopoly.
(b) To gain the enormous profits of trade with them.
(c) They were foreigners in a foreign land and did not want to offend.
(d) The Japanese didn't try to control the Dutch overly much.

4. About what time did the American ships finally anchor in Edo Bay?
(a) 7 pm.
(b) About 5 am the next day.
(c) 5 pm.
(d) Midnight.

5. What did Perry insist upon when the Japanese repeated their request that the Americans go to Nagasaki?
(a) They needed a few days to get water and wood.
(b) They could not make it all that far.
(c) Perry wanted his letter answered first.
(d) They did not want to treat with the Dutch since they were at war with them.