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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. With what are the Americans impressed?
(a) The strict protocol they followed.
(b) The beauty of the city from the harbor.
(c) The numbers of their army.
(d) How kind the Japanese people are.

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

3. 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 Americans were inferior to the Europeans.
(c) That the Emperor should rule in favor of trade.
(d) That the Shoguns would benefit by trade.

4. What did Commodore Perry say could start a war?
(a) The Japanese treating with other countries and not the United States.
(b) The Japanese refusing to rescue shipwrecked sailors in their waters.
(c) The Japanese fishing in American waters without paying a tariff.
(d) Cruel treatment of shipwrecked sailors.

5. What did the Japanese do as the Americans passed by?
(a) Bowed.
(b) Made clicking noises with their tongues.
(c) Booed.
(d) Raised their right hands.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Shoguns ruled Japan when Perry arrived?

2. Who were not even counted in the census?

3. What does Commodore Perry have for the Emperor from President Fillmore?

4. What will the U.S. get compared to other nations in the future?

5. What were the rumors about devils with white faces?

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