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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. What are two of the ships doing that scares some of the inhabitants?
(a) Shooting cannons.
(b) Firing muskets.
(c) Waving flags.
(d) Streaming smoke.

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

3. What was the period in Japan called during the era that Perry arrived?
(a) The Sun Peace.
(b) The Great River Ran.
(c) The Great Uprising.
(d) The Great Peace.

4. What stunned the Japanese about the sailors?
(a) Some were Chinese.
(b) Some were black.
(c) How many there were.
(d) Some were women.

5. What did Commodore Perry still not understand even after help from the Dutch?
(a) The cultural and social structure of the Japanese.
(b) Why the Dutch did not resist the strictly-regulated relations with the Japanese.
(c) Who the Emperor favored.
(d) Why the other countries gave up on trading with the Japanese.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the first Englishman to arrive in Japan?

2. What did the Japanese have no knowledge of?

3. What could merchants buy?

4. On what island did the Dutch reside?

5. About how many samurai were there in Japan when Perry arrived?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who were the daimyos?

2. What happened after Shogun Ieyasu died?

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

4. Why did the Dutch submit to the rigid restrictions of the Japanese?

5. What was one consequence of the Japanese's isolation for the Americans?

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

7. What was one consequence of the Japanese's isolation for the Japanese?

8. Describe the time before this setting when the Japanese were not cut off from the rest of the world.

9. What was Edo's first response to the messengers and why is it amazing?

10. Who commanded the American forces and why did they come to Japan?

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