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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. What did many of the daimyos believe?
(a) That the West was inferior and that trade would lead to the victimization of Japan.
(b) That the Shoguns would benefit by trade.
(c) That the Americans were inferior to the Europeans.
(d) That the Emperor should rule in favor of trade.

2. Who arrived in Japan 15 days after Commodore Perry left?
(a) An American senator from California.
(b) The first American tourists.
(c) An American senator from Pennsylvania.
(d) A native American Indian.

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

4. What did Commodore Perry not know about the Emperor?
(a) He hated Westerners.
(b) He was basically a figurehead.
(c) He was a young boy.
(d) He was dead.

5. Who in the time that Perry arrived were considered unproductive?
(a) Merchants.
(b) Peasants.
(c) Artisians.
(d) Samurai.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does Manjiro assure the Shogun?

2. What did the Japanese say they would give to the American ships?

3. In what year does the book open?

4. What did Perry decide as far as Shimoda and Hakodate was concerned?

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

(see the answer key)

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