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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 do the people wonder that the ships might mysteriously be pushing to shore?
(a) Active volcanoes.
(b) A huge oven of fire.
(c) A raging dragon.
(d) Nothing.

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

3. When did the Shogun end relations with the Spanish and Portuguese?
(a) When Commodore Perry arrived.
(b) About ten years after they arrived.
(c) When they were at war with England.
(d) Never.

4. When did Spanish Jesuits settle in Japan?
(a) 1824.
(b) 1771.
(c) 1549.
(d) 1877.

5. Why did the Dutch submit to such control by the Japanese?
(a) They believed the Japanese would continue to give them a monopoly.
(b) To gain the enormous profits of trade with them.
(c) They were foreigners in a foreign land and did not want to offend.
(d) The Japanese didn't try to control the Dutch overly much.

Short Answer Questions

1. What stunned the Japanese about the sailors?

2. What warned people to flee?

3. Who was a mere puppet?

4. Who were not even counted in the census?

5. About what time did the American ships finally anchor in Edo Bay?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe the role of the Emperor of Japan at that time.

4. Describe the life of the Dutch who resided in Deshima.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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