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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 did the Shogun do?
(a) Carried out the Emperor's orders.
(b) Protected the nation.
(c) Not much; it was mainly a ceremonial rank.
(d) Dispensed justice.

2. Who was Amaterasu?
(a) The sun god.
(b) The moon goddess.
(c) The sun goddess.
(d) The god of the stars.

3. Why did Ido and Toda say nothing at the meeting with Perry?
(a) They were not authorized to speak for the Emperor.
(b) They did not like Admiral Perry.
(c) They did not know English.
(d) It is illegal to speak to foreigners.

4. What did the groups of five families have to do?
(a) Swear allegience to each other.
(b) Go to Edo every year for census.
(c) Monitor one another's behavior.
(d) Pay seventy percent of all their earnings to the daimyo.

5. Who comprised the lower class in the cities?
(a) The untouchables.
(b) The house servants.
(c) Artisans and merchants and craftsmen.
(d) The priests.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what percent of the population were farmers in the mid-nineteenth century in Japan?

2. What did the Japanese have no knowledge of?

3. What did Commodore Perry do when the Japanese tried to board?

4. What did the rulers deliberately preserve in Japan?

5. Who was Nakajima?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Who were the samurai?

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

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

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

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