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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why were the feudal lords required to leave their wives and children in Edo?
(a) They did not have to leave them if they did not want to.
(b) So they could learn proper manners.
(c) Because of the lawlessness throughout Japan.
(d) As hostages.

2. Who was a mere puppet?
(a) The Emperor.
(b) The Head of the Council.
(c) The most powerful Shogun.
(d) Amaterasu.

3. What was the period in Japan called during the era that Perry arrived?
(a) The Great Uprising.
(b) The Great River Ran.
(c) The Great Peace.
(d) The Sun Peace.

4. What was the smaller of the two swords that a samurai carried used for?
(a) Ritual suicide.
(b) Eating and cutting.
(c) To display their rank.
(d) Ceremonies.

5. What did the groups of five families have to do?
(a) Swear allegience to each other.
(b) Go to Edo every year for census.
(c) Monitor one another's behavior.
(d) Pay seventy percent of all their earnings to the daimyo.

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

7. What did the people not know existed?
(a) Other lands.
(b) Ships that could sail so close to land.
(c) Steamboats.
(d) Caucasians.

8. What do the native inhabitants call the two ships?
(a) The birds of fire.
(b) The mountains of fire.
(c) God's wrath.
(d) Alien ships of fire.

9. What were the rumors about devils with white faces?
(a) That they had guns that killed a hundred people at one shot.
(b) That they were kidnapping all the children.
(c) That they would take over the country.
(d) That they were punishment from the gods.

10. What was the Japanese contact with the outside world prior to the 17th century?
(a) More open and they traded with a number of countries.
(b) The author does not say.
(c) Totally closed.
(d) The outside world had not yet discovered Japan.

11. What did Commodore Perry still not understand even after help from the Dutch?
(a) Who the Emperor favored.
(b) The cultural and social structure of the Japanese.
(c) Why the Dutch did not resist the strictly-regulated relations with the Japanese.
(d) Why the other countries gave up on trading with the Japanese.

12. Why did Ido and Toda say nothing at the meeting with Perry?
(a) They were not authorized to speak for the Emperor.
(b) They did not know English.
(c) They did not like Admiral Perry.
(d) It is illegal to speak to foreigners.

13. About what time did the American ships finally anchor in Edo Bay?
(a) About 5 am the next day.
(b) 7 pm.
(c) 5 pm.
(d) Midnight.

14. About how many naval men were aboard the ships?
(a) 560.
(b) 150.
(c) 1000.
(d) 250.

15. What could the samurai do to commoners for disrespect?
(a) Imprison them for set times.
(b) Kill them on the spot.
(c) Fine them.
(d) Whip them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the Japanese "war correspondents" doing the next morning?

2. When did the Portuguese arrive?

3. How many families could live there at a time?

4. What group has held power for the last seven hundred years?

5. What do the fishermen do as the ships are coming in?

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