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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What bothered Perry about the women?
(a) They would not look him in the face.
(b) They ate last if there was any food left.
(c) They bowed to their husbands.
(d) They painted their gums and teeth black.

2. Who did Perry see still approaching Japan?
(a) The British and French.
(b) The Italian.
(c) The Germans.
(d) The Russians and French.

3. What is one port that was mentioned as being where the Americans could trade?
(a) Shimoda.
(b) Nakasaki.
(c) Edo.
(d) Fikuri.

4. Where could consuls and agents from the United States live?
(a) Fikuri.
(b) Nakasaki.
(c) Shimoda.
(d) Edo.

5. Where did the Japanese want the Americans to land?
(a) They did not want them to land at all.
(b) Somewhere where the Japanese would feel safe.
(c) At the western end of Edo Harbor wharf.
(d) At the far end of Nagasaki harbor.

6. What did the Japanese say about shipwrecked American sailors?
(a) They would be confined but not killed.
(b) They would be transported to the closest American ally.
(c) They would be treated well.
(d) Nothing.

7. What stuck the Americans about the Japanese?
(a) Their singsong speech.
(b) Their way of removing their shoes indoors.
(c) Their flamboyant styles of dress.
(d) Their deference to authority.

8. What might the people resist upon Perry's next return?
(a) Receiving foreigners.
(b) The Shogun's against their talking to the "white devils."
(c) Showing them their best goods rather than trading their best only with the Dutch.
(d) Trading with the Americans.

9. Who was Abigail Jernegan?
(a) A British missionary who had been in Hakodate for years.
(b) A female nurse aboard Commodore Perry's ship.
(c) The first foreign woman to land in Japan.
(d) An American journalist.

10. What did Perry decide as far as Shimoda and Hakodate was concerned?
(a) To establish consuls there and work his way inland.
(b) To let half his ships go one place and half to the other.
(c) To visit them.
(d) He had no plans as of yet.

11. When did Perry arrive back in Japan for his second visit?
(a) February, 1854.
(b) January, 1856.
(c) June, 1855.
(d) June, 1858.

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

13. When was the latest ratification that take place of the treaty?
(a) 6 months.
(b) 18 months.
(c) 1 month.
(d) 1 year.

14. How many Japanese commissioners met Commodore Perry and his group?
(a) 7.
(b) 3.
(c) 1.
(d) 5.

15. Who came to say goodbye Commodore Perry?
(a) The head of the Buddhist church.
(b) The Shogun.
(c) The Emperor.
(d) The Japanese interpreters.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who finally came to one of the parties between the Japanese and Americans?

2. What did Commodore Perry's arrival initiate?

3. What was one thing that amazed the botantist Morrow?

4. When did American merchants start traveling for Japan?

5. What did Commodore Perry do for the Japanese on his ship?

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