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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. Where did messengers go as the ships were landing?
(a) Edo.
(b) Peking.
(c) Seoul.
(d) To Mount Fiji to ask the oracle what to do.

2. What did the Shogun do?
(a) Protected the nation.
(b) Not much; it was mainly a ceremonial rank.
(c) Carried out the Emperor's orders.
(d) Dispensed justice.

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

4. Why is Shogun Ieyoshi depressed?
(a) Because he had been ignored.
(b) Because his son has just died.
(c) Because his wife has just died.
(d) Because he is dying.

5. On what island did the Dutch reside?
(a) Hokkaidō.
(b) Kyūshū.
(c) Honshū.
(d) Deshima.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Spanish Jesuits settle in Japan?

2. Who was Nakajima?

3. Who comprised the lower class in the cities?

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

5. Where did four enormous ships appear at the beginning of Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

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