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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) Try to attack the ships.
(c) Set fire to one of the alien ships.
(d) Come to shore quickly.

2. What happened when Shogun Ieyasu died in 1616?
(a) Not much changed.
(b) Trade was opened to any nation who came.
(c) Being a Christian became punishable by death.
(d) Trade was completely abandoned.

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

4. When does the lead shogun learn the news of the arrival of the ships?
(a) Within hours of the ships' arrival.
(b) They do not tell him at all because he is dying.
(c) Three days after the fact.
(d) The messenger went right to him.

5. Where did four enormous ships appear at the beginning of Chapter 1?
(a) Near Seoul.
(b) Off the coast of Shimoda.
(c) Off the coast of Tokyo.
(d) Off the coast of Saipan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Amaterasu?

2. What is the name of knights in Japan?

3. Why did Ido and Toda say nothing at the meeting with Perry?

4. What did the Shogun do?

5. When was Japan last at war?

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