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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 did Commodore Perry do when the Japanese tried to board?
(a) Ordered his men to help them aboard.
(b) Invited them to his quarters.
(c) The Japanese did not yet try to board the ships.
(d) Ordered his men to keep them away.

2. What did the Americans undervalue of the Japanese gifts?
(a) Canaries.
(b) Poems from famous Japanese poets.
(c) Silks and porcelein.
(d) Swords.

3. What did Perry insist upon when the Japanese repeated their request that the Americans go to Nagasaki?
(a) They could not make it all that far.
(b) They did not want to treat with the Dutch since they were at war with them.
(c) They needed a few days to get water and wood.
(d) Perry wanted his letter answered first.

4. What did the groups of five families have to do?
(a) Pay seventy percent of all their earnings to the daimyo.
(b) Swear allegience to each other.
(c) Go to Edo every year for census.
(d) Monitor one another's behavior.

5. What did the rulers deliberately preserve in Japan?
(a) Individual freedoms.
(b) Feudalism.
(c) An open policy towards foreigners.
(d) The right of the Emperor to mandate laws.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would be built at the place where the Americans landed?

2. About how many samurai were there in Japan when Perry arrived?

3. What did Commodore Perry not know about the Emperor?

4. What Shoguns ruled Japan when Perry arrived?

5. How is the place where the enormous ships appear described?

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