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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were the Mississippi and Susquehanna?
(a) The two merchant vessels who came along with the military vessels.
(b) Two top sailing vessels.
(c) The units deployed with the ships.
(d) Two steamboats.

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

3. About how many samurai were there in Japan when Perry arrived?
(a) 12,000.
(b) 210,000.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 350,000.

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

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

6. What did Perry insist upon when the Japanese repeated their request that the Americans go to Nagasaki?
(a) Perry wanted his letter answered first.
(b) They needed a few days to get water and wood.
(c) They did not want to treat with the Dutch since they were at war with them.
(d) They could not make it all that far.

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

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

9. About how many naval men were aboard the ships?
(a) 150.
(b) 1000.
(c) 250.
(d) 560.

10. What is the name of knights in Japan?
(a) Shogun.
(b) Defenders of the Emperor.
(c) Samurai.
(d) Dragons.

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

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

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

14. Why were the feudal lords required to leave their wives and children in Edo?
(a) So they could learn proper manners.
(b) Because of the lawlessness throughout Japan.
(c) They did not have to leave them if they did not want to.
(d) As hostages.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Komei?

2. How is the place where the enormous ships appear described?

3. What was special about Edo?

4. What did the Japanese who served the Dutch swear?

5. Who was a mere puppet?

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