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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 could merchants buy?
(a) Into the higher class.
(b) Everything.
(c) Anything except swords.
(d) There was a short, prescribed list.

2. How did the Army of Japan look?
(a) Sloppy and unprepared.
(b) Extremely well disciplined.
(c) Under equipped.
(d) Like something out of King Arthur's time.

3. When did the Portuguese arrive?
(a) 1542.
(b) 1742.
(c) 1842.
(d) 1642.

4. What do the native inhabitants call the two ships?
(a) God's wrath.
(b) Alien ships of fire.
(c) The mountains of fire.
(d) The birds of fire.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was one of the main missions of Commodore Perry's trip to Japan?

3. What are two of the ships doing that scares some of the inhabitants?

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

5. When could the Dutch leave the island?

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