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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 were the Mississippi and Susquehanna?
(a) Two top sailing vessels.
(b) Two steamboats.
(c) The two merchant vessels who came along with the military vessels.
(d) The units deployed with the ships.

2. What Shoguns ruled Japan when Perry arrived?
(a) The Kamakura Shoguns.
(b) The Tokugawa Shoguns.
(c) The Ieyasu Shoguns.
(d) The Yoshinaki Shoguns.

3. What happened in Edo when the messengers arrived?
(a) The people all calmly gathered to pray.
(b) The Emperor dispatches a huge army to meet the ships.
(c) The city fell into chaos.
(d) The Emperor decided to go meet the ships.

4. What were the two ships that were not steamships?
(a) Five-masted ships.
(b) One-masted ships.
(c) Tall ships.
(d) Three-masted ships.

5. How many troops were quickly rallied?
(a) About 29,000.
(b) About 4,000.
(c) About 100,000
(d) About 17,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Spanish Jesuits settle in Japan?

2. How did the Japanese slowly become after the English quit trading?

3. What were the Dutch and formerly Christian Japanese forced to do?

4. What was Edo?

5. What was special about Commodore Perry being received by the Japanese?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What were some of Commodore Perry's accomplishments in addition to convincing the Japanese to receive him?

5. What happened after Shogun Ieyasu died?

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

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

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

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

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

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