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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. Where could consuls and agents from the United States live?
(a) Shimoda.
(b) Fikuri.
(c) Edo.
(d) Nakasaki.

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

3. What did the Japanese first say to Commodore Perry's request for a treaty?
(a) The request looked agreeable.
(b) American requests were forbidden by the laws of their ancestors.
(c) They burned the treaty request in front of the Americans.
(d) Some time stipulations would have to be put into place.

4. What did the Americans play when they reached the shore?
(a) Nothing.
(b) The Star Spangled Banner.
(c) America the Beautiful.
(d) Hail to the Emperor.

5. When did Perry arrive back in Japan for his second visit?
(a) February, 1854.
(b) January, 1856.
(c) June, 1858.
(d) June, 1855.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Perry's ships avoid getting too close to Edo?

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

3. Who was Sam Patch?

4. What surprised the Japanese about a U.S. consul?

5. What did the Japanese promise about American ships wrecked off Japan's coast?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the exchange between Perry and the Japanese about shipwrecked sailors.

3. What made Perry decide to sail to Japan despite the Shogun's death?

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

5. When was the Treaty House completed and what did Commodore Perry demand that they change?

6. What was the first approach the Japanese took towards the United States request for a treaty?

7. How did the Japanese believe they had saved face, but did they really?

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

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

10. What was Hokkaido like and how did the first contact with them go for the Americans?

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