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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 does Commodore Perry have for the Emperor from President Fillmore?
(a) A chest of rifles.
(b) A stallion.
(c) A letter.
(d) A chest of gold.

2. Who was Komei?
(a) The head priest.
(b) The Emperor.
(c) The head of the Emperor's council.
(d) The Shogun to the Emperor.

3. What did many of the daimyos believe?
(a) That the West was inferior and that trade would lead to the victimization of Japan.
(b) That the Shoguns would benefit by trade.
(c) That the Americans were inferior to the Europeans.
(d) That the Emperor should rule in favor of trade.

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

5. What Shoguns ruled Japan when Perry arrived?
(a) The Yoshinaki Shoguns.
(b) The Kamakura Shoguns.
(c) The Ieyasu Shoguns.
(d) The Tokugawa Shoguns.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what percent of the population were farmers in the mid-nineteenth century in Japan?

2. How long did it take the Dutch to travel to see the head Shogun in Edo?

3. How many families could live there at a time?

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

5. Why were the feudal lords required to leave their wives and children in Edo?

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