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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. How is the place where the enormous ships appear described?
(a) An almost-deserted area where no villages were.
(b) A small fishing village.
(c) A large city.
(d) A mid-sized city.

2. What were the Dutch and formerly Christian Japanese forced to do?
(a) Leave Japan.
(b) Stamp on Christian symbols to show they no longer believed.
(c) Live in small, isolated colonies.
(d) Give up their property rights.

3. What group has held power for the last seven hundred years?
(a) The Komeiri dynasty.
(b) No one group.
(c) The Shoguns.
(d) The Ming dynasty.

4. What did those in favor of trade want from the West?
(a) Their science, industry and wealth from trade.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Their literature and poetry.
(d) Their knowledge of the natural world.

5. Where did four enormous ships appear at the beginning of Chapter 1?
(a) Off the coast of Saipan.
(b) Off the coast of Tokyo.
(c) Off the coast of Shimoda.
(d) Near Seoul.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the native inhabitants call the two ships?

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

3. What was special about Edo?

4. How long did it take the Dutch to travel to see the head Shogun in Edo?

5. What were the two ships that were not steamships?

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