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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 might the people resist upon Perry's next return?
(a) Receiving foreigners.
(b) The Shogun's against their talking to the "white devils."
(c) Showing them their best goods rather than trading their best only with the Dutch.
(d) Trading with the Americans.

2. Who was Sam Patch?
(a) The cook for most of the parties.
(b) A Japanese American.
(c) The bosun mate on Commodore Perry's ship.
(d) Commodore Perry's steward.

3. Who arrived in Japan 15 days after Commodore Perry left?
(a) An American senator from California.
(b) A native American Indian.
(c) An American senator from Pennsylvania.
(d) The first American tourists.

4. Who came to say goodbye Commodore Perry?
(a) The head of the Buddhist church.
(b) The Shogun.
(c) The Japanese interpreters.
(d) The Emperor.

5. What did the Americans do that really impressed the Japanese?
(a) Stand at parade rest for ten hours each day.
(b) March in perfect formation and conduct military drill.
(c) Bow back to the Japanese.
(d) A 21-gun salute to the Emperor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What horrified the Japanese about the Americans?

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

3. What did Commodore Perry do for the Japanese on his ship?

4. What did the Japanese say about shipwrecked American sailors?

5. What happened on April 10, 1854?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where did the Commodore and staff go and what bothered the Commodore about the women there?

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

3. Where did Commodore Perry decide to visit?

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

5. What did Perry's arrival precipitate?

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

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

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

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

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

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