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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. How many ships were in his sailing party this time?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 9.
(d) 12.

2. What did the Japanese do as the Americans passed by?
(a) Bowed.
(b) Booed.
(c) Made clicking noises with their tongues.
(d) Raised their right hands.

3. When did the Japanese and Commodore Perry sign a treaty?
(a) April 30.
(b) July 22.
(c) July 9.
(d) March 31st.

4. Who was Abigail Jernegan?
(a) A female nurse aboard Commodore Perry's ship.
(b) A British missionary who had been in Hakodate for years.
(c) An American journalist.
(d) The first foreign woman to land in Japan.

5. Where were some members of the squadron permitted to walk?
(a) Around Hakate.
(b) Around Yokohama.
(c) Around Edo.
(d) They are not permitted to walk anywhere.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one thing the treaty called for?

2. What was one major accomplishment by Emperor Meiji?

3. When did the Japanese say they would open a harbor?

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

5. What did Commodore Perry's arrival initiate?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was the Commodore's first impression of Shimoda.

3. How did the Americans impress the Japanese as the Americans came ashore?

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

5. What did Perry's arrival precipitate?

6. How did the behaviors of the Shimoda villagers change and what was the result?

7. Where did Commodore Perry decide to visit?

8. What were some of the impacts of the treaty signing between the Americans and the Japanese?

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

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

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