View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13-16, The Treaty, Excursions on Land and Sea, Shore Leave, In the Wake of the Black Ships, Afterword.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the Shogun end relations with the Spanish and Portuguese?
(a) When Commodore Perry arrived.
(b) Never.
(c) When they were at war with England.
(d) About ten years after they arrived.

2. What did the Japanese have no knowledge of?
(a) How backward their society was.
(b) The Industrial Revolution.
(c) The value of their goods.
(d) Modern Medicine.

3. What type of structure did Japan have at this time?
(a) Dictatorship.
(b) Feudal.
(c) Monarchy.
(d) Constitutional monarchy.

4. Where did Commodore Perry and the Japanese decide that the Americans could land?
(a) Kanagawa.
(b) Harboro.
(c) Fukuri.
(d) Nagasaki.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the American ships ordered to do?

2. How did the Dutch live while maintaining trade status with the Japanese?

3. What did the Americans do that really impressed the Japanese?

4. What was one thing the Americans did that amazed the Japanese?

5. When did Perry arrive back in Japan for his second visit?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 261 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample