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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do many historians think of Manjiro's influence?
(a) That Manjiro was too close to the situation to effect change.
(b) That it kept Japan isolated for a lot longer than necessary.
(c) He is not mentioned.
(d) Positive.

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

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

4. Of what does Manjiro assure the Shogun?
(a) That Commodore Perry is a high-ranking American.
(b) That the Americans did not want Japan's land.
(c) That the Americans were less agressive than Europeans.
(d) That the Americans were peaceful.

5. What was one of the main missions of Commodore Perry's trip to Japan?
(a) Information gathering.
(b) Adventure.
(c) To recruit the famous Japanese warriors.
(d) To find out if the Japanese still existed.

6. About what percent of the population were farmers in the mid-nineteenth century in Japan?
(a) 25.
(b) 97.
(c) 80.
(d) 50.

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

8. 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.

9. 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) As hostages.
(d) Because of the lawlessness throughout Japan.

10. What was the Emperor required to study?
(a) Classics and poetry.
(b) Feng Shui.
(c) Karate.
(d) Sword fighting.

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

12. What do the fishermen do as the ships are coming in?
(a) Try to get a spy on board the ships.
(b) Try to attack the ships.
(c) Set fire to one of the alien ships.
(d) Come to shore quickly.

13. Why is Shogun Ieyoshi depressed?
(a) Because he is dying.
(b) Because his son has just died.
(c) Because he had been ignored.
(d) Because his wife has just died.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the Dutch live while maintaining trade status with the Japanese?

2. What did Commodore Perry do when the Japanese tried to board?

3. When did the Shogun end relations with the Spanish and Portuguese?

4. How many people lived in Edo?

5. What was the period in Japan called during the era that Perry arrived?

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