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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What did many of the daimyos believe?
(a) That the Americans were inferior to the Europeans.
(b) That the West was inferior and that trade would lead to the victimization of Japan.
(c) That the Emperor should rule in favor of trade.
(d) That the Shoguns would benefit by trade.

4. Who were not even counted in the census?
(a) Untouchables.
(b) Japanese who married foreigners.
(c) Foreigners who married Japanese.
(d) No one.

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

6. Under what conditions could the Dutch and English trade with the Japanese after the death of Shogun Ieyasu?
(a) Under no conditions.
(b) As long as the Emperor received 50 percent of the profits.
(c) As long as the products was nothing the Japanese produced.
(d) As long as they did not proselytize.

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

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

9. What do the people wonder that the ships might mysteriously be pushing to shore?
(a) Active volcanoes.
(b) A huge oven of fire.
(c) A raging dragon.
(d) Nothing.

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

11. What are two exports the United States is hoping to gain from Japan?
(a) Coal and whale oil.
(b) Whale oil and jade.
(c) Fish and coal.
(d) Fish and jade.

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

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

14. Why did Ido and Toda say nothing at the meeting with Perry?
(a) They did not like Admiral Perry.
(b) It is illegal to speak to foreigners.
(c) They did not know English.
(d) They were not authorized to speak for the Emperor.

15. What did the Japanese have no knowledge of?
(a) How backward their society was.
(b) Modern Medicine.
(c) The Industrial Revolution.
(d) The value of their goods.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many troops were quickly rallied?

2. What was forbidden to the farmers?

3. What happened when Shogun Ieyasu died in 1616?

4. What did Perry insist upon when the Japanese repeated their request that the Americans go to Nagasaki?

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

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