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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 do the fishermen do as the ships are coming in?
(a) Try to get a spy on board the ships.
(b) Come to shore quickly.
(c) Try to attack the ships.
(d) Set fire to one of the alien ships.

2. How did the Japanese slowly become after the English quit trading?
(a) More set in their own religion.
(b) Extreme isolationist.
(c) More tolerant of other religions.
(d) More open to foreign trade.

3. What was forbidden to the farmers?
(a) Saki and smoking.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Always staying on their land.
(d) Marriage.

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

5. What did the people not know existed?
(a) Steamboats.
(b) Ships that could sail so close to land.
(c) Caucasians.
(d) Other lands.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the rich shopkeepers live modestly?

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

3. Under what conditions could the Dutch and English trade with the Japanese after the death of Shogun Ieyasu?

4. How did the Dutch live while maintaining trade status with the Japanese?

5. What was one of the characteristics of this era in question #73?

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