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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 was the smaller of the two swords that a samurai carried used for?
(a) To display their rank.
(b) Eating and cutting.
(c) Ceremonies.
(d) Ritual suicide.

2. Why couldn't the Japanese surround the ships?
(a) They did not have enough manpower.
(b) They didn't want to surround the burning ships and catch their ships on fire.
(c) They could not outrun the ships.
(d) They didn't have any war ships of their own.

3. About what percent of the population were farmers in the mid-nineteenth century in Japan?
(a) 25.
(b) 97.
(c) 50.
(d) 80.

4. How many families could live there at a time?
(a) 122.
(b) 50.
(c) 38.
(d) 12.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the two ships that were not steamships?

2. Why did the Dutch submit to such control by the Japanese?

3. How many troops were quickly rallied?

4. What did the Japanese have no knowledge of?

5. What do many historians think of Manjiro's influence?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the scene as the ships steamed into the harbor.

2. Who were the samurai?

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

4. Describe the Dutch's visit to Edo to see the head Shogun.

5. What was special about the Englishman, Will Adams?

6. Where did messengers ride when the ships were spotted, and what was the consequence?

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

8. Describe the two opposing camps to the idea of a treaty with the Americans.

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

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

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