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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 were the two ships that were not steamships?
(a) Tall ships.
(b) Three-masted ships.
(c) One-masted ships.
(d) Five-masted ships.

2. What do the people wonder that the ships might mysteriously be pushing to shore?
(a) A raging dragon.
(b) Active volcanoes.
(c) A huge oven of fire.
(d) Nothing.

3. What were the Japanese "war correspondents" doing the next morning?
(a) Waiting by one American ship for permission to board.
(b) Drawing pictures of the officers in charge.
(c) Drawing pictures of the ships.
(d) Interviewing some of the lower-ranked officers.

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

5. What was Edo?
(a) The capital of Korea.
(b) The capital of China.
(c) The large city where the ships landed.
(d) The capital of Japan.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did the groups of five families have to do?

3. About what time did the American ships finally anchor in Edo Bay?

4. How did the Army of Japan look?

5. Where did messengers go as the ships were landing?

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