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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What would the Japanese officers give American ships?
(a) Aid in obtaining trade agreements.
(b) Navigation advice.
(c) Help in rebuilding wrecked ships.
(d) Coal, water and general necessities.

2. Where did Commodore Perry and the Japanese decide that the Americans could land?
(a) Harboro.
(b) Nagasaki.
(c) Kanagawa.
(d) Fukuri.

3. What did the merchants fail to do after being in Shimoda for three months?
(a) Interest the Japanese in their goods.
(b) Establish a trading post.
(c) Get any Japanese to talk to them.
(d) Find an interpreter.

4. What will the U.S. get compared to other nations in the future?
(a) Only the Dutch and Russian would be ahead of the U.S.
(b) First right of refusal above other nations in goods offered.
(c) Any privilege other nations receive, the U.S. will also receive.
(d) First chance at new trade ports.

5. What horrified the Japanese about the Americans?
(a) Their table manners.
(b) Their protests about the suicides.
(c) That the Americans took pictures of the Emperor.
(d) That the Americans wore swords to the table.

6. What surprised the Japanese about a U.S. consul?
(a) The Americans did not want to send any consuls to Japan.
(b) The consul brought his wife with him.
(c) The consul was a woman.
(d) One arrived in Edo.

7. What show did the Americans present?
(a) None.
(b) The Wild West show.
(c) Punch and Judy puppets.
(d) A minstrel show.

8. Who arrived in Japan 15 days after Commodore Perry left?
(a) An American senator from Pennsylvania.
(b) An American senator from California.
(c) The first American tourists.
(d) A native American Indian.

9. What did the Americans undervalue of the Japanese gifts?
(a) Swords.
(b) Silks and porcelein.
(c) Poems from famous Japanese poets.
(d) Canaries.

10. What did the Sumo wrestlers do to demonstrate their strength?
(a) Lifted huge bales of rice.
(b) Cracked huge blocks of stone.
(c) Lifted kegs of American whiskey.
(d) Lifted a ship's anchor.

11. What did some of the Americans collect?
(a) Flowers, plants and seaweeds.
(b) Silk handkerchiefs.
(c) Samurai swords.
(d) Silk scarves.

12. What was Commodore Perry permitted to do?
(a) Meet with the Emperor.
(b) Establish a residency in Edo.
(c) Travel as close to Edo as the depth of the water would permit.
(d) Establish a residency in Yokohama.

13. What did the Japanese find odd about the Americans' eating habits?
(a) Their alcohol.
(b) The use of glass and utensils.
(c) Eating meat.
(d) Not eating meat.

14. Why did Perry's ships avoid getting too close to Edo?
(a) They were forbidden to do so.
(b) The interpreters and negotiators would be be pressured to commit suicide.
(c) They would have gotten stuck on the river's sand.
(d) They didn't want the people of Edo to see the smoking ships.

15. When did Commodore Perry arrive at the agreed-upon landing area?
(a) March 1.
(b) March 30.
(c) April 1.
(d) June 2.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was one thing that was excellent about Shimoda?

2. Why does Perry decide to move forward with plans to return to Japan?

3. When did Perry arrive back in Japan for his second visit?

4. What was one reason Perry was happy with the treaty?

5. How did the Japanese and Americans threaten each other?

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