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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. Why did the English stop trading in 1623?
(a) They were forced to after a Christian symbol was found on one of their traders.
(b) The King of England declared it illegal to trade with Japan.
(c) They had to get back home because of war.
(d) It was no longer profitable.

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

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

4. What did Commodore Perry still not understand even after help from the Dutch?
(a) Who the Emperor favored.
(b) Why the Dutch did not resist the strictly-regulated relations with the Japanese.
(c) Why the other countries gave up on trading with the Japanese.
(d) The cultural and social structure of the Japanese.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Japanese who served the Dutch swear?

2. Who was a mere puppet?

3. What did Perry insist upon when the Japanese repeated their request that the Americans go to Nagasaki?

4. On what island did the Dutch reside?

5. Who was Nakajima?

(see the answer key)

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