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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9-12, The Black Ships Return, The Treaty House, An Array of Gifts, The Grand Banquet.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What stunned the Japanese about the sailors?
(a) Some were black.
(b) How many there were.
(c) Some were Chinese.
(d) Some were women.

2. What are the American ships ordered to do?
(a) Go to Nagasaki and use the Dutch as go-betweens.
(b) Wait until the Emperor summoned them.
(c) Return to the United States immediately.
(d) Pay for the opportunity to see the Emperor.

3. What were the Mississippi and Susquehanna?
(a) Two steamboats.
(b) The two merchant vessels who came along with the military vessels.
(c) The units deployed with the ships.
(d) Two top sailing vessels.

4. Who was a mere puppet?
(a) Amaterasu.
(b) The Head of the Council.
(c) The Emperor.
(d) The most powerful Shogun.

5. What was handed to Commodore Perry?
(a) A scroll with a reply to President Fillmore's letter.
(b) A gold statue of the Buddha.
(c) A ceremonial sword.
(d) Three ceremonial calligraphy pens.

Short Answer Questions

1. Under what conditions could the Dutch and English trade with the Japanese after the death of Shogun Ieyasu?

2. What was the Japanese contact with the outside world prior to the 17th century?

3. Why did the English stop trading in 1623?

4. When does the lead shogun learn the news of the arrival of the ships?

5. What language could Yenosuke speak fluently?

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