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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did those in favor of trade want from the West?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Their knowledge of the natural world.
(c) Their science, industry and wealth from trade.
(d) Their literature and poetry.

2. Where did messengers go as the ships were landing?
(a) Peking.
(b) Seoul.
(c) To Mount Fiji to ask the oracle what to do.
(d) Edo.

3. What was the smaller of the two swords that a samurai carried used for?
(a) Ritual suicide.
(b) To display their rank.
(c) Ceremonies.
(d) Eating and cutting.

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

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

6. What were the two ships that were not steamships?
(a) Tall ships.
(b) One-masted ships.
(c) Five-masted ships.
(d) Three-masted ships.

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

8. 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.

9. What did Commodore Perry not know about the Emperor?
(a) He was dead.
(b) He was a young boy.
(c) He was basically a figurehead.
(d) He hated Westerners.

10. What did Commodore Perry pretend to be?
(a) An Admiral.
(b) A Senator.
(c) No one but himself.
(d) A scientist.

11. 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.

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

13. Who comprised the lower class in the cities?
(a) The priests.
(b) The untouchables.
(c) The house servants.
(d) Artisans and merchants and craftsmen.

14. How many families could live there at a time?
(a) 122.
(b) 50.
(c) 38.
(d) 12.

15. What did Commodore Perry do when the Japanese tried to board?
(a) The Japanese did not yet try to board the ships.
(b) Ordered his men to help them aboard.
(c) Invited them to his quarters.
(d) Ordered his men to keep them away.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the rich shopkeepers live modestly?

2. What do the native inhabitants call the two ships?

3. What did the Japanese do with the first Englishman to arrive?

4. Who was Nakajima?

5. What was forbidden to the farmers?

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