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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. Why is Shogun Ieyoshi depressed?
(a) Because his son has just died.
(b) Because he is dying.
(c) Because his wife has just died.
(d) Because he had been ignored.

2. What was Edo?
(a) The capital of Japan.
(b) The capital of Korea.
(c) The large city where the ships landed.
(d) The capital of China.

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

4. What did Perry insist upon when the Japanese repeated their request that the Americans go to Nagasaki?
(a) They did not want to treat with the Dutch since they were at war with them.
(b) They needed a few days to get water and wood.
(c) Perry wanted his letter answered first.
(d) They could not make it all that far.

5. What could merchants buy?
(a) Anything except swords.
(b) Into the higher class.
(c) Everything.
(d) There was a short, prescribed list.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Manjiro?

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

3. How did the Dutch live while maintaining trade status with the Japanese?

4. What did the Japanese have no knowledge of?

5. With what are the Americans impressed?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who is Nakajima and what does he tell the Americans and what was Perry's response?

4. Who were the daimyos?

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

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

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

8. Who were the samurai?

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

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

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