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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. Who comprised the lower class in the cities?
(a) The house servants.
(b) Artisans and merchants and craftsmen.
(c) The priests.
(d) The untouchables.

2. When did Spanish Jesuits settle in Japan?
(a) 1877.
(b) 1771.
(c) 1824.
(d) 1549.

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

4. Why is Shogun Ieyoshi depressed?
(a) Because his wife has just died.
(b) Because he is dying.
(c) Because his son has just died.
(d) Because he had been ignored.

5. What did the Shogun do?
(a) Not much; it was mainly a ceremonial rank.
(b) Carried out the Emperor's orders.
(c) Dispensed justice.
(d) Protected the nation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the Dutch submit to such control by the Japanese?

2. What are the American ships ordered to do?

3. What was the meeting with the Shogun like for the Dutch?

4. What were the Dutch and formerly Christian Japanese forced to do?

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

(see the answer key)

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