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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How large was the island?
(a) 200 yards by 80 yards.
(b) 1000 yards by 1000 yards.
(c) 4000 yards by 500 yards.
(d) 600 yards by 120 yards.

2. Why couldn't the Americans stay in Edo Bay?
(a) They were scaring the fish and depriving the city of food.
(b) They were polluting it.
(c) It was against Japanese law.
(d) They were not invited.

3. What group has held power for the last seven hundred years?
(a) The Ming dynasty.
(b) The Shoguns.
(c) No one group.
(d) The Komeiri dynasty.

4. How did the Japanese slowly become after the English quit trading?
(a) More tolerant of other religions.
(b) Extreme isolationist.
(c) More open to foreign trade.
(d) More set in their own religion.

5. About how many samurai were there in Japan when Perry arrived?
(a) 12,000.
(b) 100,000.
(c) 210,000.
(d) 350,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Edo?

2. Why couldn't the Japanese surround the ships?

3. When did the Portuguese arrive?

4. What are two exports the United States is hoping to gain from Japan?

5. When did the Shogun end relations with the Spanish and Portuguese?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the Japanese try to do and what did Commodore Perry order his men to do and why?

2. What did the native Japanese who served the Dutch have to do?

3. What had Japan been like before the time of Commodore Perry's arrival?

4. Describe the scene when the Susquehanna and Mississippi landed.

5. What was the composition of the American forces arriving in Japan?

6. Who is Kayama; what did he want, and what was Commodore Perry's response to him?

7. Discuss the lead Shogun at the time of Commodore Perry's arrival.

8. What percentage of Japanese were farmers and what was their life like?

9. Who were the lower classes in the cities and what was one advantage to their class?

10. Who did the Americans awaken to see the next morning and what would they be considered today?

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