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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) Because of the lawlessness throughout Japan.
(b) They did not have to leave them if they did not want to.
(c) As hostages.
(d) So they could learn proper manners.

2. What type of structure did Japan have at this time?
(a) Constitutional monarchy.
(b) Dictatorship.
(c) Monarchy.
(d) Feudal.

3. How many families could live there at a time?
(a) 38.
(b) 50.
(c) 122.
(d) 12.

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

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

6. How is the place where the enormous ships appear described?
(a) A mid-sized city.
(b) A large city.
(c) A small fishing village.
(d) An almost-deserted area where no villages were.

7. When could the Dutch leave the island?
(a) During the three great festivals of the year.
(b) Whenever they wanted to.
(c) Once a year.
(d) Only with special permission.

8. What was the meeting with the Shogun like for the Dutch?
(a) Exciting.
(b) Informative.
(c) Futile.
(d) Humiliating.

9. Who in the time that Perry arrived were considered unproductive?
(a) Peasants.
(b) Artisians.
(c) Samurai.
(d) Merchants.

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

11. Why couldn't the Americans stay in Edo Bay?
(a) They were polluting it.
(b) They were not invited.
(c) It was against Japanese law.
(d) They were scaring the fish and depriving the city of food.

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

13. How many people lived in Edo?
(a) Over a million.
(b) About 500,000.
(c) About 44 thousand.
(d) Over 100,000.

14. In what year does the book open?
(a) 1788.
(b) 1853.
(c) 1833.
(d) 1901.

15. Who was Amaterasu?
(a) The sun god.
(b) The sun goddess.
(c) The god of the stars.
(d) The moon goddess.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are two of the ships doing that scares some of the inhabitants?

2. What did those in favor of trade want from the West?

3. What was Edo?

4. What stunned the Japanese about the sailors?

5. When does the lead shogun learn the news of the arrival of the ships?

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