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

2. What was one of the characteristics of this era in question #73?
(a) The wars kept the food supplies scant.
(b) The arts flourished.
(c) The peasants often were able to move into the upper classes.
(d) There was much fighting among the Shogun families.

3. What do the fishermen do as the ships are coming in?
(a) Come to shore quickly.
(b) Try to attack the ships.
(c) Try to get a spy on board the ships.
(d) Set fire to one of the alien ships.

4. What were the Dutch and formerly Christian Japanese forced to do?
(a) Stamp on Christian symbols to show they no longer believed.
(b) Give up their property rights.
(c) Live in small, isolated colonies.
(d) Leave Japan.

5. Who in the time that Perry arrived were considered unproductive?
(a) Artisians.
(b) Samurai.
(c) Merchants.
(d) Peasants.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Commodore Perry still not understand even after help from the Dutch?

2. What was the meeting with the Shogun like for the Dutch?

3. With what are the Americans impressed?

4. How many people lived in Edo?

5. What did Perry insist upon when the Japanese repeated their request that the Americans go to Nagasaki?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What happened on Friday, July 8th, 1853, at the opening of the book?

5. Who were the samurai?

6. What was the Tokugawa period and some of its positive aspects?

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

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

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

10. Who were the daimyos?

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