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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 the Shogun do?
(a) Dispensed justice.
(b) Protected the nation.
(c) Not much; it was mainly a ceremonial rank.
(d) Carried out the Emperor's orders.

2. What did the rich shopkeepers live modestly?
(a) They were strict Buddhists.
(b) So they did not lose their stores to the government.
(c) They were taxed so much, they had little money.
(d) So as not to engender envy.

3. How many Japanese commissioners met Commodore Perry and his group?
(a) 1.
(b) 7.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

4. What are the American ships ordered to do?
(a) Wait until the Emperor summoned them.
(b) Go to Nagasaki and use the Dutch as go-betweens.
(c) Pay for the opportunity to see the Emperor.
(d) Return to the United States immediately.

5. Where did Commodore Perry and the Japanese decide that the Americans could land?
(a) Kanagawa.
(b) Harboro.
(c) Nagasaki.
(d) Fukuri.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Amaterasu?

2. When did the Shogun die?

3. What did Commodore Perry's arrival initiate?

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

5. What was special about Edo?

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