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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 some of the Americans collect?
(a) Silk handkerchiefs.
(b) Samurai swords.
(c) Flowers, plants and seaweeds.
(d) Silk scarves.

2. What do the people wonder that the ships might mysteriously be pushing to shore?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Active volcanoes.
(c) A huge oven of fire.
(d) A raging dragon.

3. What was the impression of Japan by most of the Americans?
(a) They were barbarians.
(b) They were unreasonable.
(c) They were bloodthirsty.
(d) They were a cultured, civilized nation.

4. What did the rulers deliberately preserve in Japan?
(a) Feudalism.
(b) An open policy towards foreigners.
(c) The right of the Emperor to mandate laws.
(d) Individual freedoms.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the English stop trading in 1623?

2. Why did Commodore Perry bring many gifts on his ships?

3. Who arrived in Japan 15 days after Commodore Perry left?

4. When could the Dutch leave the island?

5. What do many historians think of Manjiro's influence?

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