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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Who were thought to be ruffians?
(a) The artisians.
(b) The daimyo.
(c) The Ronin samurai.
(d) The peasants.

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

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

7. What did the Japanese do with the first Englishman to arrive?
(a) Made him advisor and a samurai.
(b) They sent him away.
(c) They put him in prison for the rest of his life.
(d) Eventually they killed him.

8. How long did it take the Dutch to travel to see the head Shogun in Edo?
(a) A week each way.
(b) A month each way.
(c) Several days each way.
(d) Two weeks each way.

9. What stunned the Japanese about the sailors?
(a) How many there were.
(b) Some were Chinese.
(c) Some were women.
(d) Some were black.

10. What was special about Edo?
(a) It was where the largest army in the world was stationed.
(b) It had thousands of underground hallways where many people could hide.
(c) It had magicians who could work magic to rid the place of the ships.
(d) It was the largest city in the world at that time.

11. With what are the Americans impressed?
(a) The strict protocol they followed.
(b) The numbers of their army.
(c) How kind the Japanese people are.
(d) The beauty of the city from the harbor.

12. What is illegal for the Emperor to do without permission of the government?
(a) Get married.
(b) Leave the palace.
(c) Sign a law.
(d) Order an execution.

13. What was forbidden to the farmers?
(a) Always staying on their land.
(b) Saki and smoking.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Marriage.

14. What were the Japanese "war correspondents" doing the next morning?
(a) Drawing pictures of the officers in charge.
(b) Waiting by one American ship for permission to board.
(c) Interviewing some of the lower-ranked officers.
(d) Drawing pictures of the ships.

15. When was Japan last at war?
(a) 1810.
(b) 1799.
(c) 1597.
(d) 1621.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the meeting with the Shogun like for the Dutch?

2. What did Commodore Perry still not understand even after help from the Dutch?

3. How many troops were quickly rallied?

4. Who was Komei?

5. What were the Dutch and formerly Christian Japanese forced to do?

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