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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 was Commodore Perry permitted to do?
(a) Establish a residency in Edo.
(b) Meet with the Emperor.
(c) Establish a residency in Yokohama.
(d) Travel as close to Edo as the depth of the water would permit.

2. What was surprising about the Japanese behavior?
(a) They were so tolerant after so many years of isolation.
(b) That they were so much more gracious to the Americans than the Dutch.
(c) They did not wear any weapons in the Americans' presence.
(d) Nothing that the author mentioned.

3. What would be built at the place where the Americans landed?
(a) A trading marketplace.
(b) Barracks.
(c) A small palace for Commodore Perry.
(d) A Treaty House.

4. Why did Perry's ships avoid getting too close to Edo?
(a) The interpreters and negotiators would be be pressured to commit suicide.
(b) They were forbidden to do so.
(c) They would have gotten stuck on the river's sand.
(d) They didn't want the people of Edo to see the smoking ships.

5. When was the latest ratification that take place of the treaty?
(a) 1 year.
(b) 18 months.
(c) 6 months.
(d) 1 month.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who arrived in Japan 15 days after Commodore Perry left?

2. Where was the Commodore and some staff invited to tour?

3. What was one thing the Americans did that amazed the Japanese?

4. What did Commodore Perry's arrival initiate?

5. What did the Americans undervalue of the Japanese gifts?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Commodore Perry happy with the treaty?

2. What sort of gifts did the Americans give the higher ranked Japanese?

3. What Japanese awaited Perry and his staff?

4. Enumerate the major points of the treaty that was signed between the United States and Japan.

5. When did Kayama meet with the fleet and what did he tell them?

6. What horrified the Japanese about the Americans at the banquet, but how did the Japanese behave anyway?

7. On April 10th, 1854, where did the Commodore take one of his ships and what was the result?

8. Who was Sam Patch and why was he terrified? What happened?

9. How did the two cultures meet face to face and what did the people of the two countries think of the other?

10. What did Perry's arrival precipitate?

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