3. What happened when Shogun Ieyasu died in 1616?
(a) Trade was opened to any nation who came.
(b) Trade was completely abandoned.
(c) Not much changed.
(d) Being a Christian became punishable by death.

4. Who was Komei?
(a) The head priest.
(b) The Emperor.
(c) The head of the Emperor's council.
(d) The Shogun to the Emperor.

5. What does Commodore Perry have for the Emperor from President Fillmore?
(a) A chest of rifles.
(b) A stallion.
(c) A chest of gold.
(d) A letter.

6. What was Kayama pretending to be?
(a) Governor.
(b) The local police chief.
(c) The Emperor.
(d) The head priest.

7. What was special about Commodore Perry being received by the Japanese?
(a) They greeted him with a special designation no other white man had received.
(b) His parents had been missionaries to Japan.
(c) He was the first Western ambassador to be received in over two hundred years.
(d) They ignored the Japanese laws against such a meeting.

8. Where did messengers go as the ships were landing?
(a) Edo.
(b) Peking.
(c) To Mount Fiji to ask the oracle what to do.
(d) Seoul.

9. What did those in favor of trade want from the West?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Their knowledge of the natural world.
(c) Their literature and poetry.
(d) Their science, industry and wealth from trade.

10. What are two exports the United States is hoping to gain from Japan?
(a) Fish and coal.
(b) Fish and jade.
(c) Coal and whale oil.
(d) Whale oil and jade.

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

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

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

14. What did the Japanese have no knowledge of?
(a) Modern Medicine.
(b) The value of their goods.
(c) The Industrial Revolution.
(d) How backward their society was.

15. Under what conditions could the Dutch and English trade with the Japanese after the death of Shogun Ieyasu?
(a) Under no conditions.
(b) As long as they did not proselytize.
(c) As long as the products was nothing the Japanese produced.
(d) As long as the Emperor received 50 percent of the profits.