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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What Shoguns ruled Japan when Perry arrived?
(a) The Kamakura Shoguns.
(b) The Yoshinaki Shoguns.
(c) The Ieyasu Shoguns.
(d) The Tokugawa Shoguns.

4. 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.

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

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

7. When did the Shogun end relations with the Spanish and Portuguese?
(a) When they were at war with England.
(b) When Commodore Perry arrived.
(c) Never.
(d) About ten years after they arrived.

8. 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) Come to shore quickly.
(d) Set fire to one of the alien ships.

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

10. How large was the island?
(a) 600 yards by 120 yards.
(b) 4000 yards by 500 yards.
(c) 200 yards by 80 yards.
(d) 1000 yards by 1000 yards.

11. 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.

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

13. What do the native inhabitants call the two ships?
(a) The mountains of fire.
(b) Alien ships of fire.
(c) The birds of fire.
(d) God's wrath.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did messengers go as the ships were landing?

2. With what are the Americans impressed?

3. What happened in Edo when the messengers arrived?

4. What were the two ships that were not steamships?

5. What could merchants buy?

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