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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 was one major accomplishment by Emperor Meiji?
(a) Bringing the Japanese out of feudalism.
(b) Winning the right to travel make decisions about Japan.
(c) Putting in place a fishing rights treaty.
(d) Winning the right for Japan to have consuls in other countries.

2. What would the Japanese officers give American ships?
(a) Help in rebuilding wrecked ships.
(b) Aid in obtaining trade agreements.
(c) Navigation advice.
(d) Coal, water and general necessities.

3. Where did the Japanese want the Americans to land?
(a) At the far end of Nagasaki harbor.
(b) Somewhere where the Japanese would feel safe.
(c) At the western end of Edo Harbor wharf.
(d) They did not want them to land at all.

4. What were the two ships that were not steamships?
(a) Five-masted ships.
(b) One-masted ships.
(c) Three-masted ships.
(d) Tall ships.

5. What show did the Americans present?
(a) A minstrel show.
(b) The Wild West show.
(c) None.
(d) Punch and Judy puppets.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did some of the Americans collect?

2. What did the Japanese say about shipwrecked American sailors?

3. What might the people resist upon Perry's next return?

4. What happened in Edo when the messengers arrived?

5. Why couldn't the Japanese surround the ships?

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