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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why did Commodore Perry bring many gifts on his ships?
(a) He planned to treat with the Chinese if the treaty did not go well with the Japanese.
(b) To win over the Japanese.
(c) He planned to stop in several other countries to obtain treaties and wanted gifts for all of them.
(d) In case a treaty was signed.

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

4. Why did Perry's ships avoid getting too close to Edo?
(a) The interpreters and negotiators would be be pressured to commit suicide.
(b) They were forbidden to do so.
(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.

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

6. What was handed to Commodore Perry?
(a) A gold statue of the Buddha.
(b) Three ceremonial calligraphy pens.
(c) A ceremonial sword.
(d) A scroll with a reply to President Fillmore's letter.

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

8. What did Commodore Perry's arrival initiate?
(a) A shutdown of the entire wharf area of Edo.
(b) A shutdown of the entire wharf area of Nagasaki.
(c) A war between Shoguns.
(d) Weeks of negotiations.

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

10. What was one thing that was excellent about Shimoda?
(a) The deep water port.
(b) The numerous docks.
(c) The open bazaars.
(d) The sanitation system.

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

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

13. What was one major accomplishment by Emperor Meiji?
(a) Winning the right for Japan to have consuls in other countries.
(b) Bringing the Japanese out of feudalism.
(c) Putting in place a fishing rights treaty.
(d) Winning the right to travel make decisions about Japan.

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What surprised the Japanese about a U.S. consul?

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

3. How did the Japanese negotiators think they saved face?

4. With what were the Americans who accepted the invitation impressed about the Japanese?

5. What did Commodore Perry say could start a war?

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