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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does the lead shogun learn the news of the arrival of the ships?
(a) The messenger went right to him.
(b) They do not tell him at all because he is dying.
(c) Within hours of the ships' arrival.
(d) Three days after the fact.

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

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

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

5. How did the Army of Japan look?
(a) Extremely well disciplined.
(b) Like something out of King Arthur's time.
(c) Under equipped.
(d) Sloppy and unprepared.

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

7. How did the Dutch live while maintaining trade status with the Japanese?
(a) Like princes.
(b) Like slaves.
(c) In very commodious quarters.
(d) Frugally but adequately.

8. Who is Manjiro?
(a) A Japanese who spent time in the United States.
(b) The Emperor's son.
(c) The head Shogun's samurai bodyguard.
(d) The Emperor's brother.

9. What warned people to flee?
(a) The local militia.
(b) Temple bells ringing.
(c) The priests of the temple.
(d) The men who got off the ship.

10. Why did the Dutch submit to such control by the Japanese?
(a) The Japanese didn't try to control the Dutch overly much.
(b) They were foreigners in a foreign land and did not want to offend.
(c) They believed the Japanese would continue to give them a monopoly.
(d) To gain the enormous profits of trade with them.

11. How many troops were quickly rallied?
(a) About 4,000.
(b) About 17,000.
(c) About 100,000
(d) About 29,000.

12. What were the Dutch and formerly Christian Japanese forced to do?
(a) Leave Japan.
(b) Stamp on Christian symbols to show they no longer believed.
(c) Give up their property rights.
(d) Live in small, isolated colonies.

13. When did Spanish Jesuits settle in Japan?
(a) 1549.
(b) 1771.
(c) 1824.
(d) 1877.

14. 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 was the largest city in the world at that time.
(d) It had magicians who could work magic to rid the place of the ships.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did the rulers deliberately preserve in Japan?

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

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

5. Why did Ido and Toda say nothing at the meeting with Perry?

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